Abstract
One of the challenges faced by blind people is the difficulty in identifying objects with concise information. They could only rely on the senses of hearing, smell, taste or touch to engage and get some perspectives of objects. Hence, this paper presents a mobile application called Iris to aid blind people in "visualising" their surroundings with descriptive objects. Iris combines the multiple object detection and optical character recognition capabilities of Microsoft Computer Vision API to turns smartphones into assistive devices for the blind to use in their daily activities.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Function, Disability, and Health co-located with the 2020 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020) |
| Editors | Denis Newman-Griffis, Serguei V. Pakhomov, Suzanne Tamang, Ayah Zirikly, Bart Desmet, Hongfang Liu, Junichi Tsujii |
| Place of Publication | Aachen Germany |
| Publisher | ceur-ws.org |
| Pages | 21-25 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 2760 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Event | Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Function, Disability, and Health 2020 - Online, Kyoto, Japan Duration: 7 Jan 2021 → 8 Jan 2021 Conference number: 1st http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2760/ (Proceedings) |
Publication series
| Name | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1613-0073 |
Conference
| Conference | Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Function, Disability, and Health 2020 |
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| Abbreviated title | AI4Function 2020 |
| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Kyoto |
| Period | 7/01/21 → 8/01/21 |
| Other | Workshop year is 2020 despite being held in 2021 |
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