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Laura Giarré

2 accepted papers

2018

Deep Trail-Following Robotic Guide Dog in Pedestrian Environments for People who are Blind and Visually Impaired - Learning from Virtual and Real Worlds

ICRA 2018poster

Navigation in pedestrian environments is critical to enabling independent mobility for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) in their daily lives. White canes have been commonly used to obtain contact feedback for following walls, curbs, or man-made trails, whereas guide dogs can assist in avoiding…

Cited by 82SourceScholar
2017

Enabling independent navigation for visually impaired people through a wearable vision-based feedback system

ICRA 2017poster

This work introduces a wearable system to provide situational awareness for blind and visually impaired people. The system includes a camera, an embedded computer and a haptic device to provide feedback when an obstacle is detected. The system uses techniques from computer vision and motion planning…

Cited by 205SourceScholar