Reading labels of cylinder objects for blind persons

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ye, Ze ^a   Yi, Chucai ^b   Tian, Yingli ^a,b  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

assistive text reading; blind person; distribution of edge pixels; projection; stroke orientation; text region

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TEXT READINGS; BLIND PERSON; DISTRIBUTION OF EDGE PIXELS; PROJECTION; STROKE ORIENTATIONS; TEXT REGION;

CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EXHIBITIONS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84885637082     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2013.6607632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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