Egocentric vision IT technologies for Alzheimer disease assessment and studies

TL;DR

This paper explores egocentric vision technology using wearable cameras to monitor activities and assess Alzheimer’s disease impact, focusing on location and saliency estimation modules.

Contribution

It introduces the development of egocentric vision tools specifically designed for clinical evaluation of dementia patients.

Findings

Development of automatic location estimation module

Implementation of visual saliency estimation for content interpretation

Potential for improved clinical assessment tools

Abstract

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.