Title
Computer vision and text recognition for assisting visually impaired people using Android smartphone
Abstract
Advances made with new technologies have boosted the development of systems to assist the daily lives of the visually impaired people. These systems intend to help by providing their user with some critical information about their environment using senses they can still use. In this paper, we discuss a system that uses existing technologies such as the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) available on an Android smartphone, and use them to automatically identify and recognize texts and signs in the environment and help the users navigate. The proposed system uses a combination of computer vision and Internet connectivity on an Android smartphone not only to recognize signs, but also reconstruct sentences and convert them to speech. This paper discusses the design flow and the experimental results of the project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EIT.2017.8053384
2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Text-to-Speech,Android smartphone,computer vision,text recognition,visually impaired people assistance,signs recognition,Internet connectivity,TTS,optical character recognition,OCR
Computer vision,Android (operating system),Intelligent character recognition,Computer science,Optical character recognition,Design flow,Emerging technologies,Artificial intelligence,Internet access,Text recognition,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2154-0357
978-1-5090-4768-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
hao jiang15917.96
Thomas Gonnot274.17
Won-Jae Yi3366.73
Jafar Saniie415247.55