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
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