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Geometric Layout Analysis in a Wearable Reading Device for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Blind and visually impaired people can use a mobile device for accessing printed information, which is ubiquitous in everyday life. Thus, there is a need for a mobile easy-to-use reading device, capable of dealing with the complexity of the outdoor environment. In this paper a wearable camera based solution is presented, aiming at improving the performance of existing systems through the use of an integrated approach for the document processing. This particular publication covers the segmentation phase of the processing chain as well as geometric analysis of the layout. Using a highly efficient approach we were able to overcome the limitations of a mobile computing environment without compromising on the robustness of the result. In order to demonstrate the advantages of the presented algorithm for the specific field of application we compare its output to the results obtained by a state-of-the art commercial solution.

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  • Wearable device
  • healthcare assistance
  • OCR
  • document processing

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  1. Free University Berlin, Germany

    Roman Guilbourd & Raul Rojas

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  1. Télécom ParisTech Department, 75013, Paris, France

    Gérard Memmi

  2. ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ulf Blanke

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Guilbourd, R., Rojas, R. (2014). Geometric Layout Analysis in a Wearable Reading Device for the Blind and Visually Impaired. In: Memmi, G., Blanke, U. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05452-0_7

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