Title
Descending step classification using time-of-flight sensor data
Abstract
This paper proposes a method to analyse human-made environments regarding the existence of descending stairs and steps to assists visually impaired and furthermore disabled people, that are not able to use traditional supports like blind canes. Those people are heavily limited in their daily lives, since wrong decisions caused by the lack of information can easily lead to accidents. We use depth data acquired with a low-resolution Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera to perceive the scene in front a mobile vehicle (rollator) to provide the user with detailed information about potentially hazardous situations. Experiments with affected persons have shown the ability of the system to help them understand the environment and, in particular, avoid falls from descending stairs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IVS.2015.7225712
2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
descending step classification,time-of-flight sensor data,visually impaired people,disabled people,low-resolution ToF camera,time-of-flight camera
Computer vision,Mobile vehicle,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Time of flight sensor,Stairs
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1931-0587
1
0.37
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carsten Stahlschmidt111.04
Sebastian von Camen210.37
Alexandros Gavriilidis331.42
Anton Kummert423455.14