Robot vision for the visually impaired

2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-22

  Pradeep, Vivek ^a   Medioni, Gerard ^a   Weiland, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D DATA; BLIND USERS; FEATURE-BASED; MICROVIBRATIONS; NAVIGATIONAL AIDS; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; ROBOT VISION; STEREO TRIANGULATION; TACTILE INTERFACE; TRAVERSABILITY; VISION PROCESSING; VISUAL ODOMETRY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WHITE CANE; WIDE-FIELD;

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NAVIGATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 77956541429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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