A smartphone-based obstacle detection and classification system for assisting visually impaired people

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 444-451

  Tapu, Ruxandra ^a   Mocanu, Bogdan ^a   Bursuc, Andrei ^a   Zaharia, Titus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Object classification; Obstacle moving object detection; Visually impaired blind persons

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; VIDEO STREAMING;

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT DETECTION; OBSTACLE CLASSIFICATION; RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORKS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84897491638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2013.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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