Special Issue on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics - 'Assistive Solutions for Mobility, Communication and HMI'

摘要

In the last decades, there has been a tremendous increase in demand for assistive technologies useful to overcome functional limitations of individuals and to improve their quality of life. Assistive technologies provide a set of advanced tools that can improve the quality of life not only for impaired people, patients and elderly but also for healthy people struggling with everyday actions. Recently, novel assistive tools have been successfully commercialised bringing the Computer Vision and Robotics research from theory to applications exploited by the society. After a period of slow but steady progress, this new scientific area is mature for new research and application breakthroughs.