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Title:
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USING A MOBILE TERMINAL TO HELP VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE |
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Author(s):
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Sangman Moh , Jian Shen , Ilyong Chung |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-78-2 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Visually impaired people, remote translation, mobile terminal translation, video interpretation, wireless communication |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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185 |
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Last Page:
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194 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper presents novel technology-adaptive approaches to using a wireless mobile terminal to help visually impaired people recognize surrounding environments. The three step-by-step approaches of remote human translation, remote server translation, and mobile terminal translation are to adapt the evolution and feasibility of advanced computer and communication technologies. The first approach can be easily implemented but requires the involvement of human interpreters. The second and third approaches require automatic object extraction, classification and recognition from an image or video clip. In particular, for the mobile terminal translation scheme, a light-weight, low-power, highperformance, small-sized mobile terminal should be provided to locally process the computing-centric image or video recognition on real-time basis. Even though this work is currently at the design phase, it will be possible to provide visually impaired people with the context-aware mobile terminals that interpret image or video clip intelligently on the real-time basis in the near future. |
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