Authors
Joo Kooi Tan*, Yosiki Hamasaki, Ye Zhou, Ishitobi Kazuma
Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Sensui-cho Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Joo Kooi Tan
Received 24 November 2020, Accepted 20 August 2021, Available Online 9 October 2021.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.210922.014How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Bus route number; moving area detection; Haar-like filters; random forest; the visually impaired; MY VISION
Abstract
In response to requests from visually impaired people for better assistance tools in their daily lives and due to the difficulty of using public transportation, it is proposed a bus boarding support system using MY VISION. For the support, a method of identifying a bus route number is proposed in this paper. A bus approaching a bus stop is detected from MY VISION images that utilizes the Lucas–Kanade tracker. A bus route number area is then acquired with the help of the Haar-like filters and the random forest. Finally, the number from the area is extracted and identified through pattern matching. The effectiveness of the proposed method was shown by experiments. The results indicate that it is possible to realize a practical boarding support system for the visually impaired.
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).