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In this paper, the navigating system with camera embedded whitecane, which is called EYECANE, is presented to help the visually impaired in safely traveling on unfamiliar environments. It provides three environmental information to the user: 1) the current situation (place type) where a user stands on, 2) the positions and sizes of obstacles around a user, and 3) the viable paths to prevent the collisions of such obstacles. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Hwang, J., Ji, Y., Kim, E.Y. (2012). Intelligent Situation Awareness on the EYECANE. In: Anthony, P., Ishizuka, M., Lukose, D. (eds) PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32695-0_66
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