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Toward Touching a Landscape in a Picture: Investigation of Groping Strategy about Tactile Images and Image Simplification Method

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008)

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In this paper, we propose a method for “touching a landscape in a photograph.” In concrete terms, it is an image processing to simplify images and making images tactile by a stereo copying machine. How much we simplify images depends on subject’s groping strategy. Experiments are carried about three images which they are different in their complexity of texture. The results show that frequency of large hand movements correlate with complexity of image texture.

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Klaus Miesenberger Joachim Klaus Wolfgang Zagler Arthur Karshmer

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Shiose, T., Kagiyama, Y., Ito, K., Mamada, K., Kawakami, H., Katai, O. (2008). Toward Touching a Landscape in a Picture: Investigation of Groping Strategy about Tactile Images and Image Simplification Method. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_127

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