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Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-12-0045 | |
| Project Name: | Intelligent Situation Awareness and Navigation Aid for Visually Impaired Persons | |
| Project Status: | Active | |
| Start Date: | May 3, 2012 | |
| End Date: | May 2, 2016 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Yousuf | |
| First Name: | Mohammed | |
| Telephone: | 202-493-3199 | |
| E-mail: | mohammed.yousuf@dot.gov | |
| Office: | Office of Operations Research and Development | |
| Team: | Trans Enabling Technologies Team [HRDO-10] | |
| Program: | Exploratory Advanced Research | |
| Project detail | ||
| Roadmap/Focus area(s): | Livability | |
| Project Description: | In Phase I, the goal is to explore and develop situation awareness and assistive navigation technologies to provide blind or visually impaired persons with obstacle avoidance and intelligent wayfinding capabilities in indoor environments by using wearable sensors (e.g., cameras, 3D-orientation sensors, pedometers). In Phase II, the technology will be further improved and research will be extended to outdoor pedestrian environments to provide blind users with waypoint navigation, path planning, and advanced warning of events through interaction with GPS, Geographic Information System (GIS), and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) infrastructure. | |
| Goals: |
Development of a Concept of Operations (ConOps), data needs, and market analysis.
Development of a prototype.
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| Test Methodology: | Leverage experience in computer vision and develop a real-time hierarchical compositional model for object detection. | |
| Expected Benefits: | Increase mobility of travelers with disabilities and explore use of situational awareness in other areas. | |
| FHWA Topics: | Research/Technologies--Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) | |
| TRT Terms: | Pedestrians Operations Research Awareness Travelers Vision |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Operations |
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| Subject Areas: | Data and Information Technology Society Safety and Human Factors |
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