论文信息 - Accessibility for the blind: An automated audio/tactile description of pictures in digital documents

Accessibility for the blind: An automated audio/tactile description of pictures in digital documents

In this paper we present our work in the field of accessibility to visual information in digital documents for the blind people. Our method consists in detecting the significant visual information in a picture/document, extracting their properties and rearrange them for the specified accessible output. Our approach relies on the efforts made in the field of digital documents accessibility along with image processing and content-based image retrieval. Our system provides then two possibilities of outputs: tactile/oral or a combination of the two.

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