Egocentric vision IT technologies for Alzheimer disease assessment and studies
This addresses the need for new tools in clinical assessment of Alzheimer's disease patients, representing an incremental application of existing technology to a new domain.
The paper applies egocentric vision technology to monitor instrumental activities for clinical evaluation of Alzheimer's disease impact, introducing current development with focus on automatic location estimation and visual saliency estimation modules.
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.