DocumentCode
3237948
Title
Regular feature extraction for recognition of Braille
Author
Ng, C.M. ; Ng, Vincent ; Lau, Y.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. & Math., Hong Kong Tech. Coll., Hong Kong
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
302
Lastpage
306
Abstract
Braille, a touch-reading system for visually impaired people was first introduced in 1825 by Louis Braille. Editing and reprinting Braille text that was originally embossed on paper is both time consuming and labour intensive. This paper presents an automatic system to recognize Braille pages and to convert Braille documents into English or Chinese text for editing
Keywords
character recognition; feature extraction; Braille; Chinese text; English text; character recognition; regular feature extraction; touch-reading system; visually impaired people; Educational institutions; Feature extraction; Fingers; Humans; Image converters; Layout; Mathematics; Military communication; Tellurium; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 1999. ICCIMA '99. Proceedings. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location
New Delhi
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0300-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCIMA.1999.798547
Filename
798547
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