Fuzzy based human vision properties in stereo sonification system for visually impaired

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4572, Issue , 2001, Pages 525-534

  Nagarajan, Ramachandran ^a,b   Yaccob, Sazali ^a   Sainarayanan, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^b NONE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Background suppression; Edge detection; Electronic Travel Aid; Iris; Sonification; Vision aid

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SETS; SCANNING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

STEREO SONIFICATION SYSTEMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0035764109     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444223     Document Type: Article

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