Text-tracking wearable camera system for visually-impaired people

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tanaka, Makoto ^a   Goto, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

DISABLED PEOPLE; NATURAL SCENES; PARTICLE FILTERING; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEXT DETECTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; WEARABLE CAMERAS;

VIDEO CAMERAS;

EID: 77957949404     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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