A Data Fusion Architecture Proposal for Visually Impaired People

Based on the difficulties that a Visually Impaired Person (VIP) has in understanding certain contexts, this article proposes a new architecture that aims to contextualize elements of that environment and, thus, help the visually disabled person to move around safely. The main objective of this proje...

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Main Authors: Cordeiro, Natal Henrique, Batista Dourado, Antonio Miguel, da Silva Quirino, Gustavo, Pedrino, Emerson Carlos
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Context
Data integration
Feature extraction
Sensor fusion
situation awareness
Surface acoustic waves
visually impaired person
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Summary:Based on the difficulties that a Visually Impaired Person (VIP) has in understanding certain contexts, this article proposes a new architecture that aims to contextualize elements of that environment and, thus, help the visually disabled person to move around safely. The main objective of this project is to extract environmental features and to subsequently perform the processes of perception, comprehension and projection of the Situation Awareness (SAW) model. The proposed architecture is composed of Computer Vision techniques (CV) and Data Fusion (DF). The CV techniques were used in order to obtain the necessary characteristics for the DF to perform the search for consistent relationships for pattern recognition and allow for the projection of possible collisions of the VIP with environmental elements. For the collision projection, the specific characteristics of each context were extracted and trained, thus providing the VIP with inferences made in real time.
ISSN:2377-5416
DOI:10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2016.030