| C2M2 along with ITSS invites you to join us in welcoming Dr. Bing Li. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). Dr. Li also has industrial experiences at China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, IBM and HERE North America LLC building maps and location platforms enabling self-driving vehicles. The underlying theme of Dr. Li’s research activities has been to empower robot and vehicle intelligence and autonomy by sensing, understanding, and learning from dynamic environments. Seminar Title: Assistive Navigation for Disabled Travelers in the Transportation Chains Seminar Abstract: Independent and safe travel are challenges but mostly desired for people with vision or mobility impairment and disability in our community. It is significant for their life quality as well as the support of their work and employment. In the past few years, Dr. Li and his team have been conducting researches to find solutions to provide assistive navigation and wayfinding technologies. In this talk, he will present Intelligent Situation Awareness and Navigation Aid (ISANA), a vision-based wearable system for blind individuals. Leveraging the robotics simultaneous localization and mapping techniques, ISANA performs visual-inertial odometry and visual re-localization to localize the system in the environment map, and 3D semantic understanding using deep learning segmentation. To handle the dynamic environment changes, real-time object detection and tracking approaches are designed using an RGB-D sensor for obstacle avoidance. In addition, he will present his vision and recent research on building intelligent automated wheelchair with wheelchair-friendly vehicles for indoor-outdoor transition in the transportation chain. His research shows the endeavor of enabling human-centric assistive mobility through sensing and autonomy technologies. |