Toward a computer vision-based wayfinding aid for blind persons to access unfamiliar indoor environments

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 521-535

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

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Visibility Metrics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind visually impaired persons; Computer vision; Indoor wayfinding; Object detection; Optical character recognition (OCR); Text extraction

Indexed keywords

BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; OBJECT DETECTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); TEXT EXTRACTION; WAY-FINDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; ELEVATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84879688003     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0431-7     Document Type: Article

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