Computer vision-based object recognition for the visually impaired using visual tags

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2013

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 400-406

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

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ISM TEC LLC   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Computer vision; Object recognition; Review; Visual tags; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REVIEWS;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; STATE OF THE ART; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; VISUAL TAGS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84920256493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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