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

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 July 2009

Firstpage

591

Lastpage

594

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227855

Filename

5227855