“ Computerized-Eyewear Based Face Recognition System for Improving Social Lives of Prosopagnosics” by Xi Wang, Xi Zhao, Varun Prakash, Weidong Shi, and Omprakash Gnawali. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2013), May 2013.
Prosopagnosia (PA), or the inability to recognize faces, is widespread around the world, with no effective cure for the disease. We propose a wearable system to improve prosopagnosic's daily life. The system utilizes a real-time face recognition application that runs on a smartphone, and a portable eyewear that displays descriptive information when a person appears in range of camera mounted on the eyewear. The system helps these patients identify faces, reminds them to make social reactions and ultimately prevents them from developing social anxiety disorders, characterized by fear and avoidance of social situations that may cause embarrassment. Lastly, we implement the system in a real life demonstration to test its performance.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{eyewearfacepervasivehealth2013,
author = {Wang, Xi and Zhao, Xi and Prakash, Varun and Shi, Weidong and
Gnawali, Omprakash},
title = {{ Computerized-Eyewear Based Face Recognition System for
Improving Social Lives of Prosopagnosics}},
booktitle = { Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth
2013)},
month = { May },
year = {2013}
}