Fusion of artificial vision and GPS to improve blind pedestrian positioning

2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brilhault, Adrien ^a,b   Kammoun, Slim ^a   Gutierrez, Olivier ^a   Truillet, Philippe ^a   Jouffrais, Christophe ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Blind; Computer vision; Geographic information systems; Global positioning system; Navigation; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; ROBOTS;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND; MAP MATCHING TECHNIQUE; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN POSITIONING; SENSOR FUSION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; VISION-BASED POSITIONING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 79952835795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NTMS.2011.5721061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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