A video based interface to textual information for the visually impaired

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 325-330

  Zandifar, A ^a   Duraiswami, R ^a   Chahine, A ^a   Davis, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE DETECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); RECTANGULAR BLOCK; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TEXTUAL INFORMATION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84963799745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMI.2002.1167016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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