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Building a Color Recognizer System on the Smart Mobile Device for the Visually Impaired People

Authors:
Hsiao Ping Lee
Jun-Te Huang
Chien-Hsing Chen
Tzu-Fang Sheu

Keywords: Visually Impaired People; Text-To-Speech Technology; Color Recognizer; Mobile Assistive System

Abstract:
One of the most important characteristics of a developed country is to take care and promote the life quality of handicapped people. There are more than 55,000 registered visually impaired people in Taiwan, and the population is growing year by year. The amount of the assistive devices or systems for the visually impaired people, which are designed and made locally in Taiwan, are very few. Most of the assistive devices and systems available to the vision-impaired people in Taiwan are imported and expensive. It means that more and more visually impaired people in Taiwan have to face various difficulties in life, which are difficult to handle by themselves, without any help from assistive devices or systems. Therefore, it is important to develop assistive devices and systems for the visually impaired people in Taiwan. It is very difficult, or impossible, for blind persons to identify object's color. The problem might cause inconvenience or further serious danger in life, for example, wearing wrong-color cloth or taking wrong drugs. The problem on color identification can be simply solved by the assistance from sighted people. But, it is an infeasible solution because of the heavy loads and cost in human resources. In this paper, a color recognition system for blind people will be developed. The system is built on the smart phones with a camera device, and, therefore, is very portable. With an accessible user interface and the text-to-speech technology, the blind people can easily access the color information from the system. The blind people can identify object's color anywhere and anytime by using the color recognizer. The developed system provides a feasible solution to the problem of color identification that the blind people faced before. Moreover, the developed system will help the blind people to increase their life quality and decrease their need for scarce sighted assistance. The color recognizing system can help the blind people identify object's color themselves.

Pages: 95 to 98

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-139-7

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011