This paper presents a new holistic vision-based mobile assistive navigation system to help
blind and visually impaired people with indoor independent travel. The system detects …

This paper presents a novel, wearable navigation system for visually impaired and blind
pedestrians that combines a global positioning system (GPS) for user outdoor localization …

This paper presents a novel mobile wearable context-aware indoor maps and navigation
system with obstacle avoidance for the blind. The system includes an indoor map editor and …

Assistive navigation for blind or visually impaired (BVI) individuals is of significance to
extend their mobility and safety in traveling, enhancing their employment opportunities and …

Scene text in indoor environments usually preserves and communicates important
contextual information which can significantly enhance the independent travel of blind and …

This paper presents an innovative wearable system to assist visually impaired people
navigate indoors in real time. Our proposed system incorporates state-of-the-art handheld …

We present a novel approach to place recognition well-suited to environments with many
dynamic objects--objects that may or may not be present in an agent's subsequent visits. By …

This dissertation makes contributions to the problem of Long-Term Appearance-Based
Place Recognition. We present a framework for place recognition in a collaborative scheme …