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Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04)
Arlington, Virginia
October 31-November 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2186-X
Yusuke Nakazato, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Masayuki Kanbara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
This paper describes a localization method for wearable computer users. To realize applications of wearable computers like a navigation system, the position of a user is required for location-based services. Many localization methods in indoor environments have been proposed. One of the methods estimates user's position using IR beacons or visual markers. However, these methods have problems of power supply and/or undesirable visual effects. In order to avoid the problems, we propose a new localization method which is based on using an IR camera and discreet markers consisting of translucent retro-reflectors. In the proposed method, to extract the regions of the markers from the captured images stably, the camera captures the reflection of IR LEDs which are flashed on and off synchronously.
Citation:
Yusuke Nakazato, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya, "Discreet Markers for User Localization," iswc, pp.172-173, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04), 2004
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