Study on Kinect-Based Sonification System for Blind Spot Warning

Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed a system which generates audio alarm and warns corresponding to obstacles in a blind spot. For the purpose, a time series of depth images obtain from Microsoft Kinect use where both left and right ear tones are generate from the left and right half of the depth images and output as a binaural sound. As a result, the system is able to notify the position and the movement of obstacles by audio in the range of 1m to 2m from users.