Wearablerable, tetherless computer--mediated reality:
WearCam as a wearable face--recognizer,
and other applications for the disabled
Steve Mann
@techreport{mannaaai361,
author = "Mann, Steve",
title = "{\bf Wearable, tetherless computer--mediated reality}:
{WearCam} as a wearable face--recognizer,
and other applications for the disabled",
institution = "M.I.T. Media Lab Perceptual Computing Section;
Also appears in {\bf AAAI Fall Symposium on
Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities},
9-11 November 1996, MIT; http://wearcam.org/vmp.htm",
type = "TR",
number = "361",
address = "Cambridge, Massachusetts",
month = "February 2",
year = 1996
}
Abstract:
WearCam, a wearable multimedia system with
video processing capability and wireless Internet connection,
has recently been proposed.
In this paper, WearCam is presented as a prosthetic device.
In particular, two example applications:
the `Personal Visual Assistant';
and the
Visual Memory Prosthetic
are described.
The `Personal Visual Assistant' embodies
a spatial `visual filter'
that reconfigures the human visual
system, providing a coordinate transformation (remapping of
spatial coordinates). Such coordinate transformations, it is hoped,
might someday be of use to the partially sighted.
The
Visual Memory Prosthetic
embodies a `temporal visual filter'
that provides computer-induced `flashbacks'
(possibly together with annotation). These `flashbacks' currently help
the author overcome `visual amnesia'.
It is hoped that, with further research, the apparatus and approach
might someday lead to perceptual intelligence that we can wear,
and be of great benefit to the disabled.
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