A Compressive Sensing Approach to Describe Indoor Scenes for Blind People

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1246-1257

  Mekhalfi, Mohamed Lamine ^a   Melgani, Farid ^a   Bazi, Yakoub ^b   Alajlan, Naif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; blind people; compressive sensing (CS); Gaussian processes (GPs); indoor scene description

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SEMANTICS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND PEOPLE; COMPRESSIVE SENSING; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; SCENE DESCRIPTION;

COMPRESSED SENSING;

EID: 84936802423     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2014.2372371     Document Type: Article

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