Staircase and escalator detection for visually impaired

This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016.

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1. Verfasser: Zereen, Aniqua Nusrat
Weitere Verfasser: Uddin, Dr. Jia
Format: Abschlussarbeit
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: BRAC Univeristy 2017
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spelling 10361-83652022-01-26T07:38:47Z Staircase and escalator detection for visually impaired Zereen, Aniqua Nusrat Uddin, Dr. Jia Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University Visually impaired Object detection Gabor filter This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report. Includes bibliographical references (page 41-45). In this thesis, two different methods are presented for staircase detection. First method works with real time captured still image and second method with real time video. Stairway detection and identification of up stair and down stair is important for both independent and safe navigation of visually impaired. Proposed first method for detecting up stair and down stair using Gabor filter and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Energy distribution as a feature has been extracted from 40 filtered images using Gabor filters with 5 scales and 8 orientations. These features are trained and tested with four different classes, up stair, down stair, freeway and other. The overall classification accuracy of the proposed method is 92.9% based on experimental result. In second method, real time video is captured with Microsoft Kinect. Detection of real time moving object along with the moving direction in respect with visually impaired people is a challenging research area. The recent advancement in technology for real world scene capturing and portable devices like Microsoft Kinect necessitate the need of more robust and faster techniques for assisting blind navigation. The objective of this study is to develop a suitable and an effective technique for moving object detection along with its moving direction in indoor environment. Depth information of the font scene of a blind people is captured using Microsoft Kinect version 1. Three consecutive depth frames are extracted from video taken in one second and Distance Along Line Profile graph is generated for four predefined lines of each depth frame. These line profile graphs are analyzed for detecting presence of any moving object and the moving direction. After detailed investigation, experimental result shows that the proposed method can successfully detect moving object along with its direction and still objects with 92% and 87% accuracy respectively. The overall accuracy of the proposed second method is 90%. Aniqua Nusrat Zereen M. Computer Science and Engineering 2017-07-26T10:23:01Z 2017-07-26T10:23:01Z 2016 2016-06 Thesis ID 14366004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/8365 en BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 45 pages application/pdf BRAC Univeristy
institution Brac University
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topic Visually impaired
Object detection
Gabor filter
spellingShingle Visually impaired
Object detection
Gabor filter
Zereen, Aniqua Nusrat
Staircase and escalator detection for visually impaired
description This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016.
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title Staircase and escalator detection for visually impaired
title_short Staircase and escalator detection for visually impaired
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