Enabling seamless access to digital graphical contents for visually impaired individuals via semantic-aware processing

Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wang, Zheshen ^a   Xu, Xinyu ^a   Li, Baoxin ^a  

^a AZ 85281   (United States)

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EID: 38749126793     PISSN: 16875176     EISSN: 16875281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/18019     Document Type: Article

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