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A system helping blind people to get character information in their surrounding environment

Published: 21 October 2013 Publication History

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We propose a system helping blind people to get character information in their surrounding environment, such as merchandise information (name, price, and best-before/use-by date) and restaurant menu (name and price). The system consists of a computer, a wireless camera/scanner and an earphone. It processes images captured/scanned by a user and extracts character regions in the image by using Support Vector Machine (SVM). Applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to the extracted regions, the system outputs the character information as synthesized speech.

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Y. Suzuki, N. ohnishi et al., A System for Extracting Character Information in the Environment for Visually Impaired People, IEEJ Trans. on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol.124, No.6, pp.1280--1287, 2004.06.

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  • (2022)“I Shake The Package To Check If It’s Mine”Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3502063(1-15)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
  • (2017)“Hands On” Visual Recognition for Visually Impaired UsersACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/306005610:3(1-30)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2017

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ASSETS '13: Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 2013
343 pages
ISBN:9781450324052
DOI:10.1145/2513383
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Published: 21 October 2013

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  1. best-before/use-by date
  2. blind people
  3. character recognition
  4. computer-aided-system
  5. image processing
  6. merchandise information
  7. restaurant menu

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  • (2022)“I Shake The Package To Check If It’s Mine”Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3502063(1-15)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
  • (2017)“Hands On” Visual Recognition for Visually Impaired UsersACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/306005610:3(1-30)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2017

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