Egocentric vision IT technologies for Alzheimer disease assessment and studies
Today I read a published paper titled “Egocentric vision IT technologies for Alzheimer disease assessment and studies”
Sort of a SenseCam on steroids with applications towards helping Alzheimer’s sufferers. From what I read I believe this work is kind of early days yet, but it could hold great promise.
The abstract is:
Egocentric vision technology consists in capturing the actions of persons from their own visual point of view using wearable camera sensors. We apply this new paradigm to instrumental activities monitoring with the objective of providing new tools for the clinical evaluation of the impact of the disease on persons with dementia. In this paper, we introduce the current state of the development of this technology and focus on two technology modules: automatic location estimation and visual saliency estimation for content interpretation.