Presentation 2016-03-07
Walkable Plane Area Detection by RGB-D Camera
Kenta Imai, Itaru Kitahara, Yoshinari Kameda, Yuichi Ohta,
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Abstract(in English) When visually impaired person walks alone, they usually use a white cane to detect plane area. However the cane can reach frontal area to only 1, 2 meters. This paper proposes the method that can detect walkable plane to about 10 meters by using RGB-D camera and wide area RGB camera that is set to see far. We detect walkable plane area to 2, 3 meters by using depth image taken by the RGB-D camera. We detect unique color region to about 10 meters by using far RGB image taken by wide area camera and treat the same color region as the plane area based on the attribute of the overlapped region on both RGB images.
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Keyword(in English) visually impaired person / supporting to walk alone / plane area / RGB-D camera
Paper # IMQ2015-29,IE2015-128,MVE2015-56
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

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Committee IE / IMQ / MVE / CQ
Conference Date 2016/3/7(2days)
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Chair Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Yuukou Horita(Univ. of Toyama) / Minoru Kobayashi(Meiji Univ.) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.)
Vice Chair Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC)
Secretary Takayuki Hamamoto(NTT) / Atsuro Ichigaya(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Kenji Sugiyama(Canon) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Nagoya Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Keio Univ.) / Takanori Hayashi(Osaka Univ.) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NTT)
Assistant Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Shinichiro Saito(Sony) / Masaru Tsuchida(NTT) / Reiko Ueoka(Kyushu Univ.) / Masaaki Iiyama(Kyoto Univ.) / Atsunobu Kimura(NTT) / Masahiro Yamamoto(OKI) / Bo GU(Waseda Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Image Media Quality / Technical Committee on Multimedia and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Walkable Plane Area Detection by RGB-D Camera
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) visually impaired person
Keyword(2) supporting to walk alone
Keyword(3) plane area
Keyword(4) RGB-D camera
1st Author's Name Kenta Imai
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(U-Tsukuba)
2nd Author's Name Itaru Kitahara
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(U-Tsukuba)
3rd Author's Name Yoshinari Kameda
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(U-Tsukuba)
4th Author's Name Yuichi Ohta
4th Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(U-Tsukuba)
Date 2016-03-07
Paper # IMQ2015-29,IE2015-128,MVE2015-56
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IMQ-493,IE-494,MVE-495
Page pp.pp.13-18(IMQ), pp.13-18(IE), pp.13-18(MVE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)