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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Text-tracking wearable camera system for visually-impaired people
Disability of visual text reading has a huge impact on the quality of life for visually disabled people. One of the most anticipated devices is a wearable camera capable of findi...
Makoto Tanaka, Hideaki Goto
ICIAP
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Qualitative Real-Time Range Extraction for Preplanned Scene Partitioning Using Laser Beam Coding
This paper proposes a novel technique to extract range using a phase-only filter for a laser beam. The workspace is partitioned according to M meaningful preplanned range segments...
Didi Sazbon, Zeev Zalevsky, Ehud Rivlin
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
Text Selection by Structured Light Marking for Hand-held Cameras
We describe a method to enable the selection of specific text regions with a hand-held camera by means of projecting a structured light pointer on the document. The user indicates...
Eve Bertucci, Maurizio Pilu, Majid Mirmehdi
IROS
2009
IEEE
196views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Scene recognition with omnidirectional vision for topological map using lightweight adaptive descriptors
Abstract— Mobile robots rely on their ability of scene recognition to build a topological map of the environment and perform location-related tasks. In this paper, we describe a ...
Ming Liu, Davide Scaramuzza, Cédric Pradali...
VMV
2001
145views Visualization» more  VMV 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
Registering Real-Scene to Virtual Imagery Using Robust Image Features
The ability to locate objects in a real-time video and relate them to virtual objects in a database is important in a number of applications including visually-guided robotic navi...
Yi Lu Murphey, Jianxin Zhang, Michael DelRose