Obstacle detection using stereo imaging to assist the navigation of visually impaired people

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-93

  Costa, Paulo ^a   Fernandes, Hugo ^b   Martins, Paulo ^b   Barroso, João ^c   Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^d  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Empirical mode decomposition; Obstacle detection; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897969759     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.10.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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