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Cell Phone-based Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Coughlan, James M. Manduchi, Roberto Shen, Huiying |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | 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 camera cell phone, which is held by the user to find and read aloud specially designed machine-readable signs in the environment (labeling locations such as offices and restrooms). Our main technical innovation is that we have designed these machine-readable signs to be detected and located in fractions of a second on the cell phone CPU, even at a distance of several meters. A linear barcode printed on the sign is read using novel decoding algorithms that are robust to noisy images. The information read from the barcode is then read aloud using pre-recorded or synthetic speech. We have implemented a prototype system on the Nokia 7610 cell phone, and preliminary experiments with blind subjects demonstrate the feasibility of using the system as a real-time wayfinding aid. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ski.org/sites/default/files/publications/wayfinding.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cs.ucsc.edu/~manduchi/papers/WayfindingFinal.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~manduchi/papers/WayfindingFinal.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
