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Camassia: Monocular Interactive Mobile Way Sonification

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Real-time camera image analysis informs the walking person about the way in front by sonification. For visually impaired people, this opens a new way to experience their surroundings and move more safely outdoors. We extended an image analysis workflow from autonomous robots to human interaction, adaption to alternating way appearance, and various sonification options. The solution is available on off-the-shelf smartphones.

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  1. iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany

    Sebastian Ritterbusch

  2. VWA-Hochschule, Stuttgart, Germany

    Sebastian Ritterbusch

  3. Study Centre for the Visually Impaired, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Gerhard Jaworek

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  1. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

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Ritterbusch, S., Jaworek, G. (2018). Camassia: Monocular Interactive Mobile Way Sonification. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_2

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