TY - GEN
T1 - A wearable face recognition system for individuals with visual impairments
AU - Krishna, Sreekar
AU - Little, Greg
AU - Black, John
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This paper describes the iCare Interaction Assistant, an assistive device for helping the individuals who are visually impaired during social interactions, The research presented here addresses the problems encountered in implementing real-time face recognition algorithms on a wearable device. Face recognition is the initial step towards building a comprehensive social interaction assistant that will identify and interpret facial expressions, emotions and gestures. Experiments conducted for selecting a face recognition algorithm that works despite changes in facial pose and illumination angle are reported. Performance details of the face recognition algorithms tested on the device are presented along with the overall performance of the system. The specifics of the hardware components used in the wearable device are mentioned and the block diagram of the wearable system is explained in detail.
AB - This paper describes the iCare Interaction Assistant, an assistive device for helping the individuals who are visually impaired during social interactions, The research presented here addresses the problems encountered in implementing real-time face recognition algorithms on a wearable device. Face recognition is the initial step towards building a comprehensive social interaction assistant that will identify and interpret facial expressions, emotions and gestures. Experiments conducted for selecting a face recognition algorithm that works despite changes in facial pose and illumination angle are reported. Performance details of the face recognition algorithms tested on the device are presented along with the overall performance of the system. The specifics of the hardware components used in the wearable device are mentioned and the block diagram of the wearable system is explained in detail.
KW - Assistive Device for Visually Impaired
KW - Face Recognition
KW - Social Interaction Aide
KW - Wearable Computing
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U2 - 10.1145/1090785.1090806
DO - 10.1145/1090785.1090806
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:32344440847
SN - 1595931597
SN - 9781595931597
T3 - ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 106
EP - 113
BT - ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
T2 - ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Y2 - 9 October 2005 through 12 October 2005
ER -