DEPTH-BASED DETECTION OF SALIENT MOVING OBJECTS IN SONIFIED VIDEOS FOR BLIND USERS

Benoît Deville, Guido Bologna, Michel Vinckenbosch, Thierry Pun

2008

Abstract

The context of this work is the development of a mobility aid for visually impaired persons. We present here an original approach for a real time alerting system, based on the use of feature maps for detecting visual salient parts in images. In order to improve the quality of this method, we propose here to benefit from a new feature map constructed from the depth gradient. A specific distance function is described, which takes into account both stereoscopic camera limitations and users choices. We demonstrate here that this additional depth-based feature map allows the system to detect the salient regions with good accuracy in most situations, even with noisy disparity maps.

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Deville B., Bologna G., Vinckenbosch M. and Pun T. (2008). DEPTH-BASED DETECTION OF SALIENT MOVING OBJECTS IN SONIFIED VIDEOS FOR BLIND USERS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 434-439. DOI: 10.5220/0001084104340439


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Benoît Deville and Guido Bologna and Michel Vinckenbosch and Thierry Pun},
title={DEPTH-BASED DETECTION OF SALIENT MOVING OBJECTS IN SONIFIED VIDEOS FOR BLIND USERS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={434-439},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001084104340439},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - DEPTH-BASED DETECTION OF SALIENT MOVING OBJECTS IN SONIFIED VIDEOS FOR BLIND USERS
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Deville B.
AU - Bologna G.
AU - Vinckenbosch M.
AU - Pun T.
PY - 2008
SP - 434
EP - 439
DO - 10.5220/0001084104340439