Computer vision-based object recognition for the visually impaired in an indoors environment: a survey

Visual Computer

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1197-1222

  Jafri, Rabia ^a,d   Ali, Syed Abid ^b   Arabnia, Hamid R ^c   Fatima, Shameem ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ISM TEC LLC   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Blind; Computer vision; Object recognition; Review; Survey; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

OBJECT RECOGNITION; REVIEWS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND; GAINING MOMENTUM; VARIOUS TECHNOLOGIES; VISION-BASED SOLUTIONS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84911001981     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-013-0886-1     Document Type: Article

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