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IROS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A 3D pose estimator for the visually impaired
— This paper presents an indoor localization system for the visually impaired. The basis of our system is an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for six degree-of-freedom (d.o.f.) posit...
Joel A. Hesch, Faraz M. Mirzaei, Gian Luca Mariott...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
An Indoor Localization Aid for the Visually Impaired
— This paper presents an indoor human localization system for the visually impaired. A prototype portable device has been implemented, consisting of a pedometer and a standard wh...
Joel A. Hesch, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
ICRA
1994
IEEE
99views Robotics» more  ICRA 1994»
13 years 9 months ago
Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance in a Computerized Travel Aid for the Blind
A blind traveler walking through an unfamiliar environment, and a mobile robot navigating through a cluttered environment have an important feature in common: both have the kinema...
Shraga Shoval, Johann Borenstein, Yoram Koren
IEAAIE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Semi-autonomous Wheelchair with HelpStar
This paper describes a semi-autonomous wheelchair enabled with “HelpStar” that provides a user who is visually impaired with mobility independence. Our “HelpStar” enabled s...
Hajime Uchiyama, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Walter D....