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Real-Time Display Recognition System for Visually Impaired

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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Abstract

Currently, electronic devices incorporating displays to present the information to the user are ubiquitous common, and visually impaired people might have problems to use these devices. This article focuses on developing a real time display detector and digital character recognition application using techniques based on the connected components approach. The display zone detection accuracy rate is about 85% and the recognition rate greater than 88%. The system was implemented on both a desktop and a cell phone.

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  1. TECNALIA. HealthTech Unit., Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, c/ Ibaizabal Bidea, 48160, Zamudio, Spain

    Irati Rasines & Ibai Díez

  2. Department of Systems and Automation Engineering, University of the Basque Country, 48013, Bilbao, Spain

    Pedro Iriondo

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  1. University of Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute “integriert studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Rasines, I., Iriondo, P., Díez, I. (2012). Real-Time Display Recognition System for Visually Impaired. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_91

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