Context-based indoor object detection as an aid to blind persons accessing unfamiliar environments

MM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1087-1090

  Yang, Xiaodong ^a   Tian, Yingli ^a   Yi, Chucai ^b   Arditi, Aries ^c  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Arlene R Gordon Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

blind visually impaired persons; computer vision; indoor wayfinding; object detection; text extraction

Indexed keywords

BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND PERSON; BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; CONTEXT-BASED; DOOR DETECTION; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INTRA-CLASS VARIATION; LAYOUT ANALYSIS; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT MODEL; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; TEXT EXTRACTION; TEXT INFORMATION; TEXT RECOGNITION; TEXT REGION; TEXT STRING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WAY-FINDING; WAY-FINDING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DOORS; ELEVATORS; FERRY BOATS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 78650985002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1873951.1874156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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