A Mobile Application for Braille to Black Conversion

This work aims to the production of inclusive technologies to help people affected by diseases. In particular, we present a pipeline to convert Braille documents, acquired with a mobile device, into classic printed text. The mobile application has been thought as support for assistants (e.g., in the...

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Published inAdvanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems pp. 741 - 751
Main Authors Farinella, Giovanni Maria, Leonardi, Paolo, Stanco, Filippo
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Blind
Braille
iOS
Mobile devices
Optical character recognition
Visually impaired
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Summary:This work aims to the production of inclusive technologies to help people affected by diseases. In particular, we present a pipeline to convert Braille documents, acquired with a mobile device, into classic printed text. The mobile application has been thought as support for assistants (e.g., in the education domain) and parents of blind and partially sighted persons (e.g., children and elderly) for the reading of Braille written documents. The software has been developed and tested thanks to the collaboration with experts in the field [2]. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed imaging pipeline in terms of conversion accuracy, punctuation, and final page layout.
ISBN:9783319259024
3319259024
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_64