The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

Computer vision based indoor localization methods use either an infrastructure of static
cameras to track mobile entities (eg, people, robots) or cameras attached to the mobile …

Visually impaired persons (VIPs) comprise a significant portion of the population, and they
are present around the globe and in every part of the world. In recent times, technology …

Recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in October 2017,
estimate that more than 253 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairment (VI) with …

The development of walking assistants for visually impaired people has become a
prominent research area due to the rapid growth of these individuals in recent decades …

Navigational assistance aims to help visually-impaired people to ambulate the environment
safely and independently. This topic becomes challenging as it requires detecting a wide …

During the past years, the development of assistive technologies for visually impaired
(VI)/blind people has helped address various challenges in their lives by providing services …

Image classification models built into visual support systems and other assistive devices
need to provide accurate predictions about their environment. We focus on an application of …

Walking/gait quality is a useful clinical tool to assess general health and is now broadly
described as the sixth vital sign. This has been mediated by advances in sensing …

Terrain detection systems have been developed for a large body of applications. For
instance, a bionic leg prosthesis would have to adapt its behavior as a function of the terrain …