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International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs

ICCHP 2016: Computers Helping People with Special Needs pp 186–189Cite as

System Supporting Independent Walking of the Visually Impaired

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This paper proposes an integrated navigation system that supports the independent walking of the visually impaired. It supports route guidance and adjustments, zebra-crossing detection and guidance, pedestrian traffic signal detection and discrimination, and localization of the entrance doors of the buildings of destinations. This system was implemented on an Android smartphone. As a result of experiments, our system’s detection rate for zebra crossings was about 72 % and about 80 % for traffic signals.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Mitsuki Nishikiri, Takehiro Sakai, Hiroaki Kudo, Tetsuya Matsumoto & Noboru Ohnishi

  2. School of Informatics, Daido University, Nagoya, Japan

    Yoshinori Takeuchi

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Correspondence to Mitsuki Nishikiri .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Nishikiri, M., Sakai, T., Kudo, H., Matsumoto, T., Takeuchi, Y., Ohnishi, N. (2016). System Supporting Independent Walking of the Visually Impaired. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_25

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