Bernt Schiele and Alex Pentland
Submitted to: ISWC'99
This paper exploits wearable computers' unique opportunity to record
and index the visual environment of the user from the ``first-person''
perspective. We propose to use a hat-mounted wearable camera to record
what the user sees during the day with a wearable computer. This
camera can be used to make the computer more contextually aware of the
user and their actions. Furthermore, the camera can be used to record,
analyze and index the visual environment of the user. By keeping track
of the actions of the user upon and within the environment the system
can be more aware of the interactions of the user within the
environment. An important aspect of the system is to automatically
extract objects of user interest, and their motion within the
environment and relative to the user.