Title
See through the fire: evaluating the augmentation of visual perception of firefighters using depth and thermal cameras.
Abstract
Our visual perception is limited to the abilities of our eyes, where we only perceive visible light. This limitation might influence how we perceive and react to our surroundings, however, this limitation might endanger us in certain scenarios e.g. firefighting. In this paper, we explore the potential of augmenting the visual sensing of the firefighters using depth and thermal imaging to increase their awareness about the environment. Additionally, we built and evaluated two form factors, hand held and head mounted display. To evaluate our built prototypes, we conducted two user studies in a simulated fire environment with real firefighters. In this workshop paper, we present our findings from the evaluation of the concept and prototypes with real firefighters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123024.3129269
UbiComp '17: The 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Maui Hawaii September, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Thermal Imaging, Depth Cameras, Firefighters
Computer vision,Computer science,Optical head-mounted display,Artificial intelligence,Firefighting,User studies,Visual perception
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5190-4
1
0.37
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yomna Abdelrahman17216.86
Pascal Knierim211312.97
Pawel W. Wozniak312735.17
Niels Henze41262108.47
Albrecht Schmidt56495696.81