Title
Computerized-eyewear based face recognition system for improving social lives of prosopagnosics
Abstract
Prosopagnosia (PA), or the inability to recognize faces, is widespread around the world, with no effective cure for the disease. We propose a wearable system to improve prosopagnosic's daily life. The system utilizes a real-time face recognition application that runs on a smartphone, and a portable eyewear that displays descriptive information when a person appears in range of camera mounted on the eyewear. The system helps these patients identify faces, reminds them to make social reactions and ultimately prevents them from developing social anxiety disorders, characterized by fear and avoidance of social situations that may cause embarrassment. Lastly, we implement the system in a real life demonstration to test its performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252119
PervasiveHealth
Keywords
Field
DocType
social life,face recognition system,effective cure,real life demonstration,social situation,social reaction,social anxiety disorder,wearable system,daily life,descriptive information,portable eyewear,real-time face recognition application,mobile computing,strain,face recognition,face
Mobile computing,Eyewear,Facial recognition system,Wearable computer,Psychology,Social anxiety,Human–computer interaction,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Multimedia,Embarrassment
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-1633
6
0.48
References 
Authors
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Wang1123.68
Xi Zhao232025.40
Varun Prakash3131.68
Weidong Shi433141.44
Omprakash Gnawali5125683.39