• DocumentCode
    3401912
  • Title

    Flowchart content descriptor for visually disabled people

  • Author

    Zorrilla, A. Mendez ; Zapirain, B. Garcìa ; Oleagordia, I. Ruiz ; Muro, A.

  • Author_Institution
    EVIDA-PAS Group, Univ. of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    14-17 Dec. 2009
  • Firstpage
    242
  • Lastpage
    247
  • Abstract
    The graphical information used in technical degrees is not accessible to visually disabled people, which is why a system is being developed to provide a textual description of the information from diagrams using digital image processing and computer vision techniques. This data is used to create a textual description which will be automatically added to the corresponding figure in order to make it accessible. Lecturers and teachers will be able to create teaching materials with common applications such as DIA, and then they will convert the charts into accessible-content figures in a very easy way. When the material arrives to the students, they will be able to access the information with the usual general applications like OpenOffice. The screen reader will let them navigate around the graph in order to access the information of a concrete element in it.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; handicapped aids; image processing; text analysis; OpenOffice; computer vision techniques; digital image processing; flowchart content descriptor; graphical information; textual description; visually disabled people; Flowcharts; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Neural networks; Neurons; Satellites; Self organizing feature maps; Testing; Accessibility on education; Computer vision; Image Processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2009 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Ajman
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5949-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSPIT.2009.5407523
  • Filename
    5407523