Increased accessibility to nonverbal communication through facial and expression recognition technologies for blind/visually impaired subjects

ASSETS'11: Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 259-260

  Astler, Douglas ^a   Chau, Harrison ^a   Hsu, Kailin ^a   Hua, Alvin ^a   Kannan, Andrew ^a   Lei, Lydia ^a   Nathanson, Melissa ^a   Paryavi, Esmaeel ^a   Rosen, Michelle ^a   Unno, Hayato ^a   Wang, Carol ^a   Zaidi, Khadija ^a   Zhang, Xuemin ^a   Tang, Cha Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

assistive technologies; blindness; computer vision; expression recognition; face recognition

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND INDIVIDUALS; BLIND USERS; BLINDNESS; COMMUNICATION PARTNERS; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; DESIGN CONCEPT; EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FACIAL RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; REAL TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER VISION; SURVEYS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 81855213195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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