TY - GEN
T1 - A survey on wearable devices used to assist the visual impaired user navigation in outdoor environments
AU - Tapu, Ruxandra
AU - Mocanu, Bogdan
AU - Tapu, Ermina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/14
Y1 - 2015/1/14
N2 - In this paper we introduce a comprehensive survey of wearable systems designed to assist the visual impaired users navigation in everyday life outdoor scenarios. We focus on presenting the main advantages and limitations of each technique in effort to inform the scientific community about the progress in the area of assistive devices and also offer users a review about the capabilities of each system. Various performance parameters are introduced in order to classify different systems by giving qualitative and quantitative measures for evaluation. At the end of the study conclusions are presented along with some perspectives for future work and development.
AB - In this paper we introduce a comprehensive survey of wearable systems designed to assist the visual impaired users navigation in everyday life outdoor scenarios. We focus on presenting the main advantages and limitations of each technique in effort to inform the scientific community about the progress in the area of assistive devices and also offer users a review about the capabilities of each system. Various performance parameters are introduced in order to classify different systems by giving qualitative and quantitative measures for evaluation. At the end of the study conclusions are presented along with some perspectives for future work and development.
KW - assistive outdoor navigation
KW - blind and visually impaired users
KW - wearable devices
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84922570667
U2 - 10.1109/ISETC.2014.7010793
DO - 10.1109/ISETC.2014.7010793
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922570667
T3 - 2014 11th International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2014 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2014 11th International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2014 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2014
Y2 - 14 November 2014 through 15 November 2014
ER -