Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind

Hideaki Goto; Takuma Hoda

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101

Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind

Hideaki Goto, Takuma Hoda

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Some mobile devices have been developed for helping the visually-impaired people to obtain useful information from text on documents, goods, and signboards. However, it is still difficult for the blind to find or even notice the text in the environment and to capture the images suitable for character recognition and speech synthesis. We developed a prototype of reading assistant device with a scene text locator that shows the text location by sound signals. To improve the device further, this paper proposes a real-time text tracking method that enables character recognition on-the-fly and also helps the users to obtain the text information easily and efficiently with less searching efforts. The presented method is based on our former one, and provides a new feature that it is tolerant of temporary occlusion or out-of-view of text regions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	658-661
Number of pages	4
Edition	PART 1
ISBN (Print)	9783319085951
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101
Publication status	Published - 2014 Jan 1
Event	14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014 - Paris, France Duration: 2014 Jul 9 → 2014 Jul 11

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Number	PART 1
Volume	8547 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014
Country	France
City	Paris
Period	14/7/9 → 14/7/11

Keywords

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Reading Assistant
Scene Text Detection
Text Tracking
Text-To-Speech

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Goto, H., & Hoda, T. (2014). Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind. In Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings (PART 1 ed., pp. 658-661). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8547 LNCS, No. PART 1). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101

Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind. / Goto, Hideaki; Hoda, Takuma.

Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings. PART 1. ed. Springer-Verlag, 2014. p. 658-661 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8547 LNCS, No. PART 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Goto, H & Hoda, T 2014, Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind. in Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings. PART 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), no. PART 1, vol. 8547 LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pp. 658-661, 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, 14/7/9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101

Goto H, Hoda T. Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind. In Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings. PART 1 ed. Springer-Verlag. 2014. p. 658-661. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 1). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101

Goto, Hideaki ; Hoda, Takuma. / Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind. Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings. PART 1. ed. Springer-Verlag, 2014. pp. 658-661 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 1).

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