Active wearable vision sensor: recognition of human activities and environments

Author

Sumi, Kazuhiko ; Sugimoto, Akihiro ; Matsuyama, Takashi ; Toda, Masato ; Tsukizawa, Sotaro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Kyoto Univ., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

1-2 March 2004

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

22

Abstract

To realize a symbiotic relationship between humans and computers, it is crucial to estimate the external and internal state of the human by observation. One promising approach is to acquire the same visual information as the human acquires. We introduce our wearable vision sensor, which is equipped with a pair of active stereo cameras and a gaze-direction detector. From the visual information obtained by the wearable vision sensor, we present three basic three functionalities: 3D gaze point detection and image retrieval, 3D digitization of a hand-held object, and the measurement of a walking trajectory.

Keywords

feature extraction; image retrieval; image sensors; image texture; motion estimation; object detection; stereo image processing; tracking; video cameras; 3D gaze point detection; 3D hand-held object digitization; active stereo cameras; gaze-direction detector; image retrieval; trajectory measurement; wearable vision sensor; Cameras; Detectors; Humans; Image retrieval; Image sensors; Information retrieval; Object detection; State estimation; Symbiosis; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics Research for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, 2004. ICKS 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2150-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICKS.2004.1313404

Filename

1313404