TY  - JOUR
T1  - Image Based Human Action Recognition System to Support the Blind
AU  - Ko, ByoungChul 
AU  - Hwang, Mincheol 
AU  - Nam, Jae-Yeal 
JO  - Journal of KIISE, JOK
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/1/14
DO  - 
KW  - The blind
KW  - human detection
KW  - object recognition
KW  - action recognition
AB  - In this paper we develop a novel human action recognition system based on communication between an ear-mounted Bluetooth camera and an action recognition server to aid scene recognition for the blind. First, if the blind capture an image of a specific location using the ear-mounted camera, the captured image is transmitted to the recognition server using a smartphone that is synchronized with the camera. The recognition server sequentially performs human detection, object detection and action recognition by analyzing human poses . The recognized action information is retransmitted to the smartphone and the user can hear the action information through the text-to-speech (TTS). Experimental results using the proposed system showed a 60.7% action recognition performance on the test data captured in indoor and outdoor environments.