Title :
Object recognition in a mobile phone application for visually impaired users
Author :
Matusiak, K. ; Skulimowski, Piotr ; Strumillo, P.
Author_Institution :
Lodz Univ. of Technol., Lodz, Poland
Abstract :
In this work we describe main features of software modules developed for Android smartphones that are dedicated for the blind users. The main module can recognise and match scanned objects to a database of objects., e.g. food or medicine containers. The two other modules are capable of detecting major colours and locate direction of the maximum brightness regions in the captured scenes. We conclude the paper with a short summary of the tests of the software aiding activities of daily living of a blind user.
Keywords :
Linux; handicapped aids; image colour analysis; image matching; object detection; object recognition; smart phones; Android smart phones; food container database; major colour detection; maximum brightness region direction location; medicine container database; mobile phone application; object database; scanned object matching; scanned object recognition; scene capturing; software modules; software-aided blind user daily living activities; visually impaired users; Cameras; Databases; Histograms; Image color analysis; Object recognition; Smart phones; accessible environment; blindness; image recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sopot
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5635-0
DOI :
10.1109/HSI.2013.6577868
