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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2009.15.5.465

Walking Assistance System for Sight Impaired People Based on a Multimodal Information Transformation Technique  

Yu, Jae-Hyoung (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Han, Young-Joon (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Hahn, Hern-Soo (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.15, no.5, 2009 , pp. 465-472 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a multimodal information transformation system that converts the image information to the voice information to provide the sight impaired people with walking area and obstacles, which are extracted by an acquired image from a single CCD camera. Using a chain-code line detection algorithm, the walking area is found from the vanishing point and boundary of a sidewalk on the edge image. And obstacles are detected by Gabor filter of extracting vertical lines on the walking area. The proposed system expresses the voice information of pre-defined sentences, consisting of template words which mean walking area and obstacles. The multi-modal information transformation system serves the useful voice information to the sight impaired that intend to reach their destination. The experiments of the proposed algorithm has been implemented on the indoor and outdoor environments, and verified its superiority to exactly provide walking parameters sentences.
Keywords
multimodal information transformation system; walking parameters; Gabor-filter; image information; voice information;
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