Camera-based signage detection and recognition for blind persons

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7383 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Wang, Shuihua ^a   Tian, Yingli ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind people; Navigation and wayfinding; Signage detection and recognition

Indexed keywords

BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND PERSON; DATA SETS; LOCAL FEATURE; MATCHING SCORE; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SHAPE DETECTION; SIGNAGE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; WAY-FINDING;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84864807852     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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