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PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Drishti: An Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Blind Navigation System and Service
There are many navigation systems for visually impaired people but few can provide dynamic interactions and adaptability to changes. None of these systems work seamlessly both ind...
Lisa Ran, Sumi Helal, Steve Moore
CCIA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Text Detection in Urban Scenes
Abstract. Text detection in urban scenes is a hard task due to the high variability of text appearance: different text fonts, changes in the point of view, or partial occlusion are...
Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Jordi Vitri&a...
HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Automatically Structuring Text for Audio Learning
In recent years podcasting has been in great demand as a recreation and a learning tool. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a system for automatically conve...
Barbara Leporini, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzz...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Software agents that learn through observation
In this paper, we present an architecture for software agents that enables them to learn vocabulary through the observation of each other bodies and actions. Besides sensors, effe...
Jaçanã Machado, Luís Miguel B...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The accessible aquarium: identifying and evaluating salient creature features for sonification
Informal learning environments (e.g., aquaria, zoos, science centers) are often inaccessible to the visually impaired. Sonification can make such environments more accessible whil...
Anandi Pendse, Michael Pate, Bruce N. Walker