Image and Video Processing for Disability
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2008 2007:054743
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Image and Video for Hearing Impaired People
We present a global overview of image- and video-processing-based methods to help the communication of hearing impaired people. Two directions of communication have to be considered: from a hearing person to a...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2008 2007:045641 -
Image and Video Processing for Visually Handicapped People
This paper reviews the state of the art in the field of assistive devices for sight-handicapped people. It concentrates in particular on systems that use image and video processing for converting visual data i...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2008 2007:025214 -
Cued Speech Gesture Recognition: A First Prototype Based on Early Reduction
Cued Speech is a specific linguistic code for hearing-impaired people. It is based on both lip reading and manual gestures. In the context of THIMP (Telephony for the Hearing-IMpaired Project), we work on auto...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2008 2007:073703 -
Enabling Seamless Access to Digital Graphical Contents for Visually Impaired Individuals via Semantic-Aware Processing
Vision is one of the main sources through which people obtain information from the world, but unfortunately, visually-impaired people are partially or completely deprived of this type of information. With the ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:018019 -
A Multifunctional Reading Assistant for the Visually Impaired
In the growing market of camera phones, new applications for the visually impaired are nowadays being developed thanks to the increasing capabilities of these equipments. The need to access to text is of prima...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:064295 -
Models for Gaze Tracking Systems
One of the most confusing aspects that one meets when introducing oneself into gaze tracking technology is the wide variety, in terms of hardware equipment, of available systems that provide solutions to the s...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:023570 -
Automatic Eye Winks Interpretation System for Human-Machine Interface
This paper proposes an automatic eye-wink interpretation system for human-machine interface to benefit the severely handicapped people. Our system consists of (1) applying the support vector machine (SVM) to d...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:065184 -
Telescopic Vector Composition and Polar Accumulated Motion Residuals for Feature Extraction in Arabic Sign Language Recognition
This work introduces two novel approaches for feature extraction applied to video-based Arabic sign language recognition, namely, motion representation through motion estimation and motion representation throu...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:087929 -
Color Targets: Fiducials to Help Visually Impaired People Find Their Way by Camera Phone
A major challenge faced by the blind and visually impaired population is that of wayfinding—the ability of a person to find his or her way to a given destination. We propose a new wayfinding aid based on a cam...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:096357 -
Transforming 3D Coloured Pixels into Musical Instrument Notes for Vision Substitution Applications
The goal of the See ColOr project is to achieve a noninvasive mobility aid for blind users that will use the auditory pathway to represent in real-time frontal image scenes. We present and discuss here two ima...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:076204 -
An Omnidirectional Stereo Vision-Based Smart Wheelchair
To support safe self-movement of the disabled and the aged, we developed an electric wheelchair that realizes the functions of detecting both the potential hazards in a moving environment and the postures and ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007 2007:087646