Text-tracking wearable camera system for the blind

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 141-145

  Goto, Hideaki ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABLED PEOPLE; NATURAL SCENES; PARTICLE FILTER; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT IMAGES; TEXT MESSAGES; TEXT REGION; TRACKING IN VIDEO SEQUENCES; VIDEO FRAME; WEARABLE CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO RECORDING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 71249094698     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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