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DIMEA
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Toward accessible 3D virtual environments for the blind and visually impaired
3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital ...
Gareth R. White, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Graham McA...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
EUROSSC
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Time-Lag as Limiting Factor for Indoor Walking Navigation
Several navigation situations can be imagined where visual cueing is not practical or unfeasible, and where the hands are required exclusively for a certain task. The utilization o...
Andreas Riener, Markus Straub, Alois Ferscha
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Visual loop closing using multi-resolution SIFT grids in metric-topological SLAM
We present an image-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework with online, appearanceonly loop closing. We adopt a layered approach with metric maps over small ...
Vivek Pradeep, Gérard G. Medioni, James Wei...