Interaction Assistant
Principal researcher
Name: Dirk Colbry
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Description: Interaction Assistant, part of the iCARE projects, is intended to deliver information to a user who is blind so that they can improve their social interactions with sighted counterparts. The device consists of a camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses which the user wears. The video from the camera is analyzed to extract information that can help the user better understand other people in their surroundings. An important goal of the system is face recognition and facial expression analysis.The work also concentrates on developing various delivery mechanisms that the user can resort to for the extracted information. The important research and development components under the interaction assistant project include: Reliable face recognition under varying pose and illumination conditions; Accurate pose angle estimation; Tracking of detected faces; Developing innovative information delivery mechanisms (using audio and haptic cues); Incorporation of 3D face analysis engine into the existing system and Reliable facial feature extraction for expression analysis.
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Last updated: 150/04/2008