Presentation	2008-11-27 Wearable Reading Assistant Device for the Blind MAKOTO TANAKA, HIDEAKI GOTO,
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Abstract(in English)	Disability of reading text in natural scenes imposes a huge impact on the Quality of Life of the blind. One of the most anticipated devices is a wearable camera capable of character recognition. The usability of such a device can be improved using an on-the-fly processing of video sequences. Since the same text regions appear in consecutive video frames, the device needs to track text regions automatically. We have developed a text tracking method based on the particle filtering to make the system more efficient. The number of text regions to be recognized has been reduced down to 1.15 The proposed method runs at a near-real-time speed of 10fps on a typical laptop computer.
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Committee	MVE
Conference Date	2008/11/20(1days)
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Registration To	Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE)
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Title (in English)	Wearable Reading Assistant Device for the Blind
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1st Author's Name	MAKOTO TANAKA
1st Author's Affiliation	Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Science()
2nd Author's Name	HIDEAKI GOTO
2nd Author's Affiliation	Tohoku University CyberScience Center
Date	2008-11-27
Paper #	PRMU2008-129,MVE2008-78
Volume (vol)	vol.108
Number (no)	328
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	6
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