Texture based Text Detection in Natural Scene Images - A Help to Blind and Visually Impaired Persons.
Muhammad Shehzad Hanif, Lionel Prévost · 2007
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a texture based technique to detect text in grey level natural scene images. This work is a part of the project called Intelligent Glasses. It is a wearable system to facilitate navigation and to assist the blind and visually impaired persons in real world. It has three parts, a bank of stereovision, a processing unit for visual perception and a handheld tactile surface. In its original form, it will be able to provide information about different types of obstacles and their position with respect to user. Our textual/symbolic information interpretation module to the vision system of the Intelligent Glasses will recognize the text from the captured scene and textual and/or symbolic information will be displayed on the handheld tactile. Initial results are encouraging with a text detection rate of 64%.