Image and Video Processing for Visually Handicapped People

This paper reviews the state of the art in the field of assistive devices for sight-handicapped people. It concentrates in particular on systems that use image and video processing for converting visual data into an alternate rendering modality that will be appropriate for a blind user. Such alterna...

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Main Authors: Dimitrios Tzovaras, Konstantinos Moustakas, Guido Bologna, Patrick Roth, Thierry Pun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2008-03-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/25214