Title :
Accessibility for the blind: An automated audio/tactile description of pictures in digital documents
Author :
Issa, Youssef Bou ; Mojahid, Mustapha ; Oriola, Bernard ; Vigouroux, Nadine
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Rech. en Inf. de Toulouse, Univ. de Toulouse, Narbonne, France
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
content-based retrieval; handicapped aids; haptic interfaces; image retrieval; automated audio picture description; automated tactile picture description; blind people; content-based image retrieval; digital documents accessibility; image processing; visual information; Content based retrieval; Data mining; Displays; Graphics; Guidelines; Image processing; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Speech synthesis; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications, 2009. ACTEA '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zouk Mosbeh
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3833-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3834-1
DOI :
10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227855
