Wearable Visual Intelligence to Assist Humans in Workplaces

Wearable devices equipped with a camera and a display allow to develop human-centric applications providing specific services able to improve worker's productivity and increase safety in industrial environments. Despite there are different wearable devices in the market, current solutions are mainly focused only on passive augmented reality and real-time remote assistance. This contribution presents Artificial Intelligence technologies for wearable devices provided by NEXT VISION s.r.l. - Spin-off of the University of Catania. In particular, we present three technologies developed by NEXT VISION able to 1) localize humans in unfamiliar environments and support them to navigate the space to reach a specific destination, 2) understanding human-object interactions to provide support to the workers in industrial workplaces during complex procedures of maintenance and 3) interact with humans thanks to a conversational intelligent agent exploiting natural language and the artificial vision to answer questions regarding the surrounding environment.