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Toward a visual pedometer

  • Dawei Liu*
  • , Qi Shan
  • , Dan Wu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Macao Polytechnic University
  • University of Washington
  • Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Traditional inertial-sensor-based pedometers are not user-friendly because of the limited availability of inertial sensors in existing mobile computing devices. To remedy the drawback, we propose a visual pedometer scheme. It employs a body-mounted camera to capture images and measures the number of steps based on a time-series analysis of image features. We address several key issues raised in the measurement and demonstrate the applicability of the proposed visual pedometer through a four-second experiment. Compared with traditional inertial-sensor-based pedometers, the proposed visual pedometer could be more user-friendly because of the extensive use of camera phones and digital cameras.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
Pages1025-1027
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012 - Trento, Italy
Duration: 26 Mar 2012 → 30 Mar 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Conference

Conference27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrento
Period26/03/12 → 30/03/12

Keywords

  • body-mounted camera
  • mobile computing
  • pedometer

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