Eye of the beholder: Phone-based text-recognition for the visually-impaired

Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 145-146

  Dumitras, Tudor ^a   Lee, Matthew ^a   Quinones, Pablo ^a   Smailagic, Asim ^a   Siewiorek, Dan ^a   Narasimhan, Priya ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

TEXT RECOGNITION SYSTEM; TEXTUAL INFORMATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 43949090173     PISSN: 15504816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWC.2006.286368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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