VizWear swMATH ID: 1001 Software Authors: Kurata, Takeshi; Okuma, Takashi; Kourogi, Masakatsu; Kato, Takekazu; Sakaue, Katsuhiko Description: In this paper, we discuss the development of wearable systems which we collectively term VizWear. Vision plays an important role in both people’s and computers’ understanding of contextual information, and the use of augmented reality (AR) techniques is a good way to show information intuitively. This is the basis of our research on wearable computer vision and visualization systems. Our wearable systems enable us to run different vision tasks in real-time. We describe a novel approach not only to sensing the wearer’s position and direction, but also to displaying video frames overlaid with 2-D annotations related to the wearer’s view. We have also developed a method for 3-D graphical overlay by applying object recognition techniques and the Hand Mouse, which enables the wearer to interact directly with an AR environment. We also describe an efficient method of face registration using wearable active vision. Homepage: http://www.springerlink.com/content/fpgy4d6kkt46xa7g/fulltext.pdf Related Software: GALib Cited in: 2 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year VizWear: Toward human-centered interaction through wearable vision and visualization. Zbl 1031.68785Kurata, Takeshi; Okuma, Takashi; Kourogi, Masakatsu; Kato, Takekazu; Sakaue, Katsuhiko 2001 all top 5 Cited by 6 Authors 1 Kato, Takekazu 1 Kourogi, Masakatsu 1 Kurata, Takeshi 1 Okuma, Takashi 1 Sakaue, Katsuhiko 1 Tzovaras, Dimitros Cited in 1 Serial 1 Signals and Communication Technology Cited in 4 Fields 1 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year