A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a body attached system to capture the experience of a person in sequence as audio/visual information. The proposed system consists of two cameras (one IR (infra-red) camera and one wide-angle color camera) and a microphone. The IR camera image is used for capturing the user’s head motions. The wide-angle color camera is used for capturing frontal view images, and an image region approximately corresponding to the users’ view is selected according to the estimated human head motions. The selected image and head motion data are stored in a storage device with audio data. This system can overcome the disadvantages of systems using head-mounted cameras in terms of the ease in putting on/taking off the device and its less obtrusive visual impact on third persons. Using the proposed system, we can record audio data, images in the user’s view and head gestures (nodding, shaking, etc.) simultaneously. These data contain significant information for recording/analyzing human activities and can be used in wider application domains (such as a digital diary or interaction analysis). Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed system.
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Text
Yamazoe et al. "A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24837-8_16Markdown
[Yamazoe et al. "A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2004/yamazoe2004eccv-novel/) doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24837-8_16BibTeX
@inproceedings{yamazoe2004eccv-novel,
title = {{A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images}},
author = {Yamazoe, Hirotake and Utsumi, Akira and Tetsutani, Nobuji and Yachida, Masahiko},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
year = {2004},
pages = {165-175},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-24837-8_16},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2004/yamazoe2004eccv-novel/}
}