Visual to tactile conversion of vector graphics

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 310-321

  Krufka, Stephen E ^a   Barner, Kenneth E ^a   Aysal, Tuncer Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Braille embosser; Edge boundary detection; Scalable vector graphics; Tactile imaging; Tactile pictures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER KEYBOARD SUBSTITUTES (HANDICAPPED AID); HAPTIC INTERFACES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; ALGORITHMS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; EYE PROTECTION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CRITICAL OUTLINES; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; RAISED-LINE IMAGES; TACTILE OUTPUT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; VECTORS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSORY AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISION DISORDERS;

BRAILLE PRINTER; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LINE IMAGES; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; SINGLE PARAMETER; TACTILE OUTPUT; VECTOR GRAPHICS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 34250722026     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2007.897029     Document Type: Article

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