Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons
Chucai Yi · 2010 · Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)
This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistants could handle text in…
computer vision · text recognition · blindness · navigation · reading assistant