TY - GEN
T1 - Real-time text tracking for text-to-speech translation camera for the blind
AU - Goto, Hideaki
AU - Hoda, Takuma
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
KW - Reading Assistant
KW - Scene Text Detection
KW - Text Tracking
KW - Text-To-Speech
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_101
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904154812
SN - 9783319085951
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 658
EP - 661
BT - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer-Verlag
T2 - 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014
Y2 - 9 July 2014 through 11 July 2014
ER -