EdgeSonic: Image feature sonification for the visually impaired

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yoshida, Tsubasa ^a   Kitani, Kris M ^a   Koike, Hideki ^a   Belongie, Serge ^b   Schlei, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Image sonification; Sensory substitution; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

EDGE GRADIENT; EDGE MAP; FLAT SURFACES; HAPTIC SENSE; IMAGE EDGE; IMAGE EDGE FEATURES; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE SONIFICATION; LINE DRAWINGS; OBJECT SHAPE; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION; SONIFICATIONS; TOUCH SCREEN; USER TRAINING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

EDGE DETECTION; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; MOBILE DEVICES;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 79953118564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1959826.1959837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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