VizWear-Active: Towards a Functionally-Distributed Architecture for Real-Time Visual Tracking and Context-Aware UI

VizWear-Active is a wearable active vision system for distributed computing environments. It consists of wearable and infrastructure-side modules that autonomously and cooperatively work together. The wearable-side modules include a wearable active camera module for actively acquiring information existing around the wearer in his/her daily life and a wristwatch UI module to provide a context-aware user interface (UI). We have implemented and demonstrated a visual augmented memory application based on real-time visual tracking by the wearable active camera module and arm gesture recognition by the wristwatch UI module.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ISWC
• Authors: Takekazu Kato, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue
• Keywords: Active Camera Module, Human Computer Interaction, ISWC 2002, Wearable Active Camera, Wristwatch Ui Module