DisabilitiesPartially sighted peopleAssociation for the BlindAbstractAccessibilitySensors2023Assistive TechnologySystemAlgorithmMobility aidsPedestrianObstacle detectionRecognitionTactileSevereBrailleDifficultiesVisualTechnologyIndoorDraftDatasetEnvironmentsIndependentlyWorkPrototypeAccessibleMillionSpatialQuality of lRepresentationsIEEESafelyObstaclesPaperContentCoordinationNavigationCaneObjectsTechnologiesDetectionStudyRequire2016EnhanceAuthorTreatyReportServicesImageRegulations
Disabilities12
- This study investigates how to exploit technologies for making society more inclusive by increasing the usability of artefacts that may be not accessible to people with disabilities. (ercim.eu)
- He said this violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodation, and 'will continue to deter blind and visually impaired people from attending musicals. (yahoo.com)
- Gori is leading IIT's Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP) Lab in Genova, studying how sensory-perceptual capabilities change and interact during development in children with and without disabilities, in order to develop rehabilitation technologies. (eurekalert.org)
- In this article, we discuss about the benefit of IoT for people with disabilities, particularly for visually impaired and blind people mobility. (hal.science)
- An additional exception for the benefit of persons with disabilities. (iam-media.com)
- and considering that an applicant must be an organisation working primarily for the benefit of persons with disabilities, registered under both Section 12A of the Income Tax Act 1961 and Chapter X of the Persons with Disabilities Act 1995, few organisations would satisfy the eligibility criteria. (iam-media.com)
- The shortcomings of the proposed amendments for persons with disabilities were highlighted in representations made before the Parliamentary Standing Committee. (iam-media.com)
- They make a computer accessible to a person who is blind or severely visually impaired, and have been used occasionally by people with learning disabilities like dyslexia. (alistapart.com)
- AGENCY: This action adds to the Procurement List products and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. (justia.com)
- He completed his PhD at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he specialized in accessibility for people with disabilities, human-computer interaction and computational linguistics. (sigaccess.org)
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities obliges signatories to ensure access to assistive technology at an affordable cost. (who.int)
- Assistive technology is required by a wide spectrum of the population including people with disabilities, the elderly and persons with chronic health conditions, as well as the broader population, all of whom will experience some form of temporary or permanent impairment or functional decline during the life course. (who.int)
Partially sighted people2
- In Europe, in particular, about 90% of visually impaired and partially sighted people are over the age of 60. (ijdesign.org)
- A series of videos demonstrating the accessible technology blind and partially sighted people use to perform tasks in the workplace as well as their fully sighted colleagues. (pocklington.org.uk)
Association for the Blind2
- The members were recruited by the Italian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. (ercim.eu)
- NPA: Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired & Goodwill Industries of Greater Rochester, Rochester, New York. (justia.com)
Abstract2
- Abstract - The primary goal is to assist the visually impaired men and women navigate greater accurately. (slideshare.net)
- Abstract Visual impairment is one of the major problems among people of all age groups across the globe. (techscience.com)
Accessibility8
- The design teams included an accessibility expert (researcher), the Barbanera Calendar design teams, and visually impaired end users. (ercim.eu)
- He has a wide range of research and development interests including human-computer interaction, multimodal user interfaces and experiences, human-robot interaction, accessibility and universal design for people with physical and mental impairments, and cognitive learning. (ijdesign.org)
- In March 2023, we proposed changes to improve pedestrian safety and accessibility at Hayfield Way, Karaka. (at.govt.nz)
- 4] N. A. Semary, S. M. Fadl, M. S. Essa, A. F. Gad, "Currency Recognition System for Visually Impaired: Egyptian Banknote as a Study Case," in IEEE 2015 International Conference on Information and Communication technology and Accessibility, ICTA , Morocco, 2015. (bilpubgroup.com)
- Further, the accessibility exception contains no provision stating that it would apply only to non-commercial endeavours to make copies of works in accessible formats available to disabled persons. (iam-media.com)
- This would immediately preclude formats not specially designed only for disabled persons from falling within the scope of the accessibility exception. (iam-media.com)
- To allow blind and visually impaired people to acquire information on environmental accessibility, besides a traditional web browser client and a popular smart phone client, an audio-haptic client on a tactile display with 7200 pins is developed. (sigaccess.org)
- Using our findings from both studies, we propose best practice when using emoji and recommendations to improve the future accessibility of emoji for visually impaired people. (emojiresear.ch)
Sensors4
- In this paper, we propose a smart IoT-based mobile sensors unit that can be attached to an off-the-shelf cane, hereafter a smart cane, to facilitate independent movement for visually impaired people. (bvsalud.org)
- The proposed mobile sensors unit consists of a six-axis accelerometer/gyro, ultrasonic sensors, GPS sensor, cameras, a digital motion processor and a single credit-card-sized single-board microcomputer. (bvsalud.org)
- Even though there are various forms of utilizing distributed sensors to monitor the behavior of people and vital signs, physical human action recognition (HAR) through body sensors gives useful information about the lifestyle and functionality of an individual. (techscience.com)
- We propose a simple prototype using OpenStreetMap data combined to physical environment data measured from sensors connected to a Arduino board through Speech recognition. (hal.science)
20231
- In April 2023, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. (cdc.gov)
Assistive Technology3
- Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision & Hearing Impairments Assistive Technology for All Ages, 2007. (fujipress.jp)
- Visually impaired people on low incomes are also often unable to afford the high up-front costs of assistive technology that can massively increase their independence. (pocklington.org.uk)
- Assistive technology, a subset of health technology, refers to assistive products and related systems and services for people to maintain or improve functioning thereby promoting well-being. (who.int)
System19
- This study is divided into risk factor analysis (RFA) and proposed system architecture (PSA). (researchgate.net)
- The proposed calendar date entry system reduced errors about date format when a user has to insert a date [1]. (ercim.eu)
- To solve this problem, we propose an assistive system called CAS (Crossing Assistance System) which extends the principle of the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) signal for outdoor and indoor location tracking and overcomes the intrinsic limitation of outdoor noise to enable us to locate the user effectively. (mdpi.com)
- With iReach, Gori aims to solve this problem, designing and developing a multisensory system that will provide non-invasive recording and training of the sensory-motor skills in visually impaired infants. (eurekalert.org)
- Therefore, we turn to the development of a portable camera-based assistive system to aid visually impaired people reading text from natural scenery. (fujipress.jp)
- 7] N. Ezaki, K. Kiyota, B. T. Minh, M. Bulacu, and L. Schomaker, "Improved Text-Detection Methods for a Camera-based Text Reading System for Blind Persons," Proc. (fujipress.jp)
- 10] Kalai Selvi U and Anish Kumar J, "Camera based Assistive Text Reading System using Gradient and Stroke Orientation for Blind Person," Int. J. of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology(IJLTET), Vol.4, Issue 1, pp. 325-330, 2014. (fujipress.jp)
- As a result, we have developed this design concept for a voicemail system that is email-friendly and can be used by an eyeless person in order to advance society and grant similar especially suitable people an equal status and respect. (ijert.org)
- The person utilizing this method wouldn't have any prior knowledge of the keyboard's layout, the alphabet's positions, or the locations of the keys.The user will respond after being automatically fed voice commands to carry out certain actions by the system. (ijert.org)
- Thomas Pocklington Trust is calling on the government to reconsider cuts in the benefits system to ensure that it meets the needs of visually impaired people. (pocklington.org.uk)
- Phil Ambler, Director of Evidence and Policy at Thomas Pocklington Trust, said: "We urge the government to ensure the benefit system effectively supports visually impaired people. (pocklington.org.uk)
- This paper proposed a Malaysian banknotes detection system using image processing technology and fuzzy logic algorithm for the visually impaired. (bilpubgroup.com)
- This paper introduces the design of a novel indoor and outdoor mobility assistance system for visually impaired people. (typeset.io)
- The MAPS architecture proposes a new low-cost system for indoor-outdoor cognitive mobility assistance, relying on two cooperating hardware feedbacks: the Force Feedback Tablet (F2T) and the TactiBelt. (typeset.io)
- The proposed system is designed to aid visually impaired persons with real-time obstacle detection, avoidance, indoors and out navigation, and actual position tracking. (easychair.org)
- if user selects face recognition mode then the system identifies face of person who standing in front of user using camera attached with eyeglass and intimate to user via earphones. (finalyearprojects.in)
- This pedestrian navigation dataset is proposed for the development of a mobility support system for visually impaired people in their daily movements in an outdoor environment. (ubfc.fr)
- The data collection process in the city of Dijon involved a person equipped with a tracking system. (ubfc.fr)
- The system, mounted on the user's helmet at a height of 1.85 meters, replicated the visual perspective of the person. (ubfc.fr)
Algorithm3
- Though there is a marginal increase in the computation required in image-halving, the computation overhead of the proposed modification is higher compared to the Dugad-Ahuja algorithm in the case of doubling the images. (typeset.io)
- In this work, we propose a modification of a recently proposed elegant image resizing algorithm by Dugad and Ahuja (2001). (typeset.io)
- Here, Cascade algorithm was used to identify the persons, OCR algorithm helps to read the book or documents and pre-trained Mobilenet-SSD model used to detect indoor object detection. (finalyearprojects.in)
Mobility aids4
- A white cane is one of the most common mobility aids for the visually impaired. (ijdesign.org)
- Further, a recent survey in France revealed that only 2% of the overall visually impaired population uses mobility aids (Sander, Lelievre, & Tallec, 2005). (ijdesign.org)
- It is still recognized as a challenge task while blind and visually impaired people travel outdoor independently, even if there are a number of assistive mobility aids available. (sigaccess.org)
- A number of further studies can be continued based on the current findings within this work, aiming at enhancing mobility aids for blind and visually impaired people gradually. (sigaccess.org)
Pedestrian3
- However, these accessible pedestrian signals can result in confusion for visually impaired people as they do not know which signal must be interpreted for traveling multiple crosses in complex road architecture. (mdpi.com)
- The dataset proposed is a collection of pedestrian navigation data sequences combining visual and spatial information. (ubfc.fr)
- Annotations of the RGB-D are also provided by bounding boxes indicating the position of relevant static or dynamic object present in a pedestrian area such as a tree, bench, or person. (ubfc.fr)
Obstacle detection2
- In this paper, we propose a novel method for autonomous obstacle detection and recognition, which employs a different type of sensor incorporating a patterned light with camera, and provides a lightweight, cost-conscious, energy-efficient, reliable and portable solution. (syr.edu)
- We propose methods for exploiting these patterns for obstacle detection and classification without requiring calibration. (syr.edu)
Recognition2
- 11] O. M. Foong and N. S. B. M. Razali, "Signage Recognition Framework for Visually Impaired People," Proc. (fujipress.jp)
- It also instructs ACB leaders to, at a minimum, withhold support from, or, if appropriate, oppose future ADA legislation or proposed regulations unless such revision contains a clear and unequivocal recognition of the rights of people who are blind and visually impaired by specifically addressing issues of concern to our community. (acb.org)
Tactile7
- It is important that for each QR code, the tactile dot is always inserted in the same position in order to allow the blind person to know where exactly the QR code is located (see Fig.2). (ercim.eu)
- Video game culture" adapted to tactile, sound experiences and with the accompaniment of a person who will explain and comment on the exhibition. (cccb.org)
- However, information on signs is inaccessible to many visually impaired people, unless represented non-visually such as with Braille, tactile graphics, or speech. (fujipress.jp)
- This is a sloped section of footpath with tactile pavers which allows people to move easily between the footpath and the road. (at.govt.nz)
- The proposed approaches about non-visual representation of obstacles and map features by tactile symbols on pin-matrix displays, will contribute to the fields of accessible tactile graphic well, especially in the coming era of affordable pin-matrix displays. (sigaccess.org)
- In October 2021 Tactile Studio organised a workshop at the Deutsche Olympischer Sportbund e.V. (German Olympic Sports Federation) with four visually impaired and blind people from the BSBH Association in the state of Hesse. (tactilestudio.co)
- For the event, Tactile Studio brought together four visually impaired and blind people from the BSBH Association in the state of Hesse. (tactilestudio.co)
Severe3
- One of the most severe difficulties for the visually impaired is safe independent mobility. (ijdesign.org)
- Worldwide, around 36 million people are blind and 217 million have a moderate to severe visual impairment. (emojiresear.ch)
- A total of 320 blind and severe visual impaired individuals (138 males and 182 females) participated in the study. (bvsalud.org)
Braille2
- ACB will offer RFB&D, through "The Braille Forum," ACB Radio and its listservs, assistance in publicizing the proposed change in the new UAK purchase policy. (acb.org)
- The proposed amendment requires the accessible format to have been specially designed for the exclusive use of persons suffering from a disability (eg, Braille). (iam-media.com)
Difficulties2
- individuals with VI had difficulties at the beginning of the proposed task, but with practice they were able to adapt to the task with an improved of performance (observed by the decrease in error time). (bvsalud.org)
- It enables people with functioning difficulties to lead healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives, participating in education, labour market and social life. (who.int)
Visual8
- In this work we propose a movie description model which learns to generate description and jointly ground (localize) the mentioned characters as well as do visual co-reference resolution between pairs of consecutive sentences/clips. (mpg.de)
- Because surfing the internet involves visual sense, it has become a scourge for those who are visually impaired. (ijert.org)
- The report ' Experiences of Living with Visual Impairment: Matching Income with Needs ' investigates the experiences of visually impaired people living at or below the Minimum Income Standard and the impact on their lives. (pocklington.org.uk)
- The proposed exception would appear in Section 52(1)(zb) and would state as follows: "The adaptation, reproduction, issue of copies or communication to the public of any work in a format, including sign language, specially designed only for the use of persons suffering from a visual, aural or other disability that prevents their enjoyment of such works in their normal format. (iam-media.com)
- The gadget proposed is a camera-visual detection hybrid that performs well in low light as part of the recommended technique, this method is utilized to detect and avoid impediments, as well as to aid visually impaired persons in identifying the environment around them. (easychair.org)
- A simple and effective method for people with visual impairments to identify things in their environment and convert them into speech for improved comprehension and navigation. (easychair.org)
- This camera was responsible for capturing the visual data as the person navigated. (ubfc.fr)
- In this paper, we analyse a corpus of 178 papers on technologies designed for people with visual impairments, published since 1988, and including at least one quantitative empirical evaluation (243 evaluations in total). (figshare.com)
Technology8
- In addition, as technology rapidly evolves, people with special needs like blind and visually impaired people can benefit from using voice assistants such as Siri or Alexa, thanks to the vocal interaction and the audio information. (ercim.eu)
- We have to make voting accessible to foreigners and people who are visually impaired … so with the technology we have today, why we haven't taken advantage of it is beyond me," he said. (kenyoncollegian.com)
- Page 755 IoT Based Assistive Glove for Visually Impaired People Ms. P. Divya Jenifar1,Ms. V. Harinitha2, Ms. M.D. Harshini3,Ms. A. James Christiya4 1Assistant professor ,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India. (slideshare.net)
- The visually impaired may now use the Internet thanks to a range of dependable and efficient technology. (ijert.org)
- With the use of voice commands and the suggested technology, visually impaired persons might access emails on their own. (ijert.org)
- In addition to increasing mobility for the visually impaired and thus quality of life, methods developed in the creation of this technology could lead to general improvements in the autonomy of small robots and portable robotics that have many applications in military surveillance, law enforcement, and search and rescue efforts. (nih.gov)
- This is a two-year Fellowship position focusing on Navigation Training Technology for people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) that is available immediately. (envisionus.com)
- Navigation Training Technology includes many diverse research areas, and a potential Fellow can propose any aspect for the Fellowship research. (envisionus.com)
Indoor1
- Using computer vision, the proposed cane will be able to recognize indoor structures such as stairways and doors, as well as detect potential obstacles. (nih.gov)
Draft5
- The proposed procedure should enable the draft strategy to be discussed at the forthcoming Health Assembly. (who.int)
- 1. The draft proposed Programme Budget 2014-2015 is presented for Regional Committee c onsideration in its early stages of development in order to allow programmatic review and discussion of the priorities and results/deliverables proposed for the work of the Organization in 2014-2015. (who.int)
- The agreed criteria, along with the core functions of WHO, have been used to define the more detailed priorities and the organizational deliverables that now appear in the draft proposed programme budget 2014-2015. (who.int)
- Next draft - for EB132: This section will be aligned with the draft twelfth general programme of work and will be added to the next draft of the proposed programme budget 2014-2015. (who.int)
- The agreed categories and proposed priorities for the period 2014-2019 that are set out in Table 1 and the criteria that are shown in Table 2 are reproduced identically from the draft twelfth general programme of work. (who.int)
Dataset2
- In this project we propose a method for automatically answering questions about images and a challenging dataset of textual question answering pairs. (mpg.de)
- To foster the research on automatic video description we propose a new Movie Description Dataset, featuring movie snippets aligned to scripts and DVS (Descriptive video service). (mpg.de)
Environments1
- Three projects have been awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health to develop innovative robots that work cooperatively with people and adapt to changing environments to improve human capabilities and enhance medical procedures. (nih.gov)
Independently2
- Visually impaired humans can advantage from assistive gloves that facilitate motion and enable them to feature independently barring relying too closely on others. (slideshare.net)
- The Federation has a podotactile path from the car park right up to the entrance hall of the building, enabling visually impaired and blind visitors to orient themselves completely independently . (tactilestudio.co)
Work7
- The awards mark the second year of NIH's participation in the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), a commitment among multiple federal agencies to support the development of a new generation of robots that work cooperatively with people, known as co-robots. (nih.gov)
- After reviewing all the feedback we received, we are proceeding with the work as proposed. (at.govt.nz)
- Only one in four working age visually impaired people are in work. (pocklington.org.uk)
- Moreover, the requirement that a disabled person be prevented from enjoying the work in its original format significantly narrows the scope of the proposed amendment, since it means that certain activities would not fall under the exception. (iam-media.com)
- If a disabled person were to enjoy a copyrightable work to any extent at all, the provisions of the exception would not apply, since the person would not be considered to have been unable to enjoy the work or to have been prevented from doing so on account of his or her disability. (iam-media.com)
- The corollary to this is that a format of work which would merely enhance a disabled person's ability to access and enjoy a work (eg, a large-print photocopy) may not fall under the scope of this exception, since the disabled person may not have been prevented from enjoying the work in its original format. (iam-media.com)
- To investigate those demands, an international survey with 106 blind and visually impaired people from 13 countries is undertaken within this work, with regarding to outdoor mobility experiences, usages of mobile devices and collaborative approaches. (sigaccess.org)
Prototype1
- The eVADER project (funded by the European Commission) aims at proposing a prototype car which combines a high safety and a low noise level. (scipedia.com)
Accessible5
- Video game culture» offers a play experience in the room, which has 28 playable devices, one of which is fully accessible to blind people. (cccb.org)
- Resolution 2008-11 directs the organization to strongly urge airlines to make kiosks at airports accessible to and usable by people who are blind or visually impaired. (acb.org)
- If voting is made more accessible, then it will be easier to get more people to vote, he said. (kenyoncollegian.com)
- Under the proposed compulsory licence provision, certain organisations which satisfied stringent criteria could apply for a compulsory licence to print copyrighted materials in accessible formats. (iam-media.com)
- software or hardware used to make a computer accessible to a disabled person. (alistapart.com)
Million6
- Every year, the number of visually impaired people grows by up to 2 million worldwide. (ijdesign.org)
- The World Health Organization (WHO, 2011) estimates that there are 39 million blind people and 246 million visually impaired people internationally. (ijdesign.org)
- More than 250 million individuals, according to a check, do not know how to use email or Internet installations for communication.The only way an eyeless person can utilise all these internet features is if they dictate the entire material to a third party who isn't visually impaired. (ijert.org)
- There are million visually impaired people in the globe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). (easychair.org)
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australian ulation 13 million persons). (cdc.gov)
- Information available in the Ontario data- ed into 7 health regions (OHRs) with populations rang- base includes dates of onset of illness, patient's age and ing from 0.5 to 2 million persons: Toronto, South West, sex, and city and hospital or healthcare facility from which Central South, Central West, Central East, East, and North. (cdc.gov)
Spatial4
- In this project, we propose a pooling interpretation of spatial relations and show how it improves image retrieval and annotations tasks involving spatial language. (mpg.de)
- We start by assessing existing local descriptors for image classification and by proposing to use co-occurrence matrices to better capture spatial relationships in images. (typeset.io)
- The proposed technique, computationally more efficient than the spatial domain based method, is found to provide better enhancement compared to other compressed domain based approaches. (typeset.io)
- The results of all previous techniques along with that of the proposed one are compared with respect to those obtained by applying a spatial domain color enhancement technique that appears to provide very good enhancement. (typeset.io)
Quality of l4
- The proposed benefits cuts are likely to seriously impact the quality of life for many visually impaired people. (pocklington.org.uk)
- The Envision Research Institute conducts research to improve the quality of life and independence for people of all ages who are blind and visually impaired. (envisionus.com)
- Envision Fellows take their diverse educational backgrounds and apply them creatively to improve the quality of life and independence for people who are BVI through their research endeavors. (envisionus.com)
- Headquartered in Wichita, Kan., Envision's mission is to improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind or visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education and research. (envisionus.com)
Representations1
- The main focus in MUCKE is on cleaning large scale Web image corpora and on proposing image representations which are closer to the human interpretation of images. (typeset.io)
IEEE1
- 12] C. Yi, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, "Portable Camera-based Assistive Text and Product Label Reading from Hand-held Objects for Blind Persons," IEEE/ASME Trans. (fujipress.jp)
Safely1
- One of the major challenges for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people is traveling safely to cross intersections on foot. (mdpi.com)
Obstacles1
- Sensor sends the signal, detects obstacles, and let person understand via vibrating a motor and buzzer. (slideshare.net)
Paper3
- This paper shares the experience of designing an inclusive paper-based calendar conceived in codesign sessions with blind and visually impaired users. (ercim.eu)
- In this paper, we propose a target-color correction method for reducing color changes caused by the different of lightin. (ieice.org)
- Since many of the formats from which disabled persons would benefit are specially designed for them (whether large-print photocopies for visually impaired persons or photocopies on coloured paper for dyslexic persons), in a way this requirement would defeat the aim of attempting to ensure that disabled persons can access copyrighted works. (iam-media.com)
Content2
- The exhibition proposes to (re)discover and to (re)play the video game culture through five areas that reflect on the history of the medium, the languages of videogames, the artistic and experimental possibilities of videogames, speeches and critical content and politicians, and the so-called gamification that has transformed our everyday life. (cccb.org)
- Linguistic validity and writing evaluation with seven experts, face validity with 23 blind persons, content validity ratio (CVR), and content validity index (CVI) were used for assessment of validity. (bvsalud.org)
Coordination1
- The training and coordination of guide dogs with blind people is a difficult task, and the results are minimal. (slideshare.net)
Navigation2
- A Co-Robotic Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired: The goal is to develop a co-robotic cane for the visually impaired that has enhanced navigation capabilities and that can relay critical information about the environment to its user. (nih.gov)
- The ERI recognizes how wayfinding and mobility (navigation) remains a challenge for people who are BVI. (envisionus.com)
Cane3
- Co-robotic cane would use computer vision to guide visually impaired. (nih.gov)
- BACKGROUND: The white cane is globally an important tool in orientation and mobility for blind and visually impaired people, but it is not often used. (bvsalud.org)
- METHOD: The initial questionnaire items were extracted through semi-structured interviews with 21 blind or severely impaired vision individuals under two main themes, the perceived advantages, and disadvantages of using a white cane. (bvsalud.org)
Objects1
- Accessing everyday objects can be a challenge for blind and visually impaired people. (ercim.eu)
Technologies2
- She was the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant in 2020 and the ERC PoC Grant will permit her to develop further her technologies, proposing them for commercialization. (eurekalert.org)
- Effective rehabilitation technologies to enhance visually impaired infants' skills depend critically on a better understanding of the neuroscientific bases of multisensory and body processing. (eurekalert.org)
Detection1
- The proposed method provides very promising results with overall detection and classification accuracies of 93.11% and 86.06% respectively. (syr.edu)
Study2
- 6] N. Tanaka and M. Okudaira, "A Study on Image Processing for Action Assistance of Visually Impaired Humans Using a Camera Equipped Cellular Phone," Technical Report of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol.33, No.6, pp. 173-176, 2009. (fujipress.jp)
- This study proposes and uses a new positioning approach for geospatial data - relative positioning approach than absolute positioning, the most traditional and intuitive way of locating geospatial data. (lu.se)
Require1
- Lasser seeks to require 'Hamilton' to put on at least one show per week with at least 25 headsets designed to accommodate visually impaired people. (yahoo.com)
20162
- Oct 3, 2016 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry reported excellent results in the Organization's global intellectual property services and finances over the past year and urged member states to move forward with negotiations on the proposed Design Law Treaty. (wipo.int)
- Sep 30, 2016 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry welcomed the entry into force of the Marrakesh Treaty which can now begin boosting the number of specially adapted texts for the benefit of blind and otherwise print-disabled people around the world. (wipo.int)
Enhance1
- Robots enhance mobility for visually and physically impaired, improve treatment for atrial fibrillation. (nih.gov)
Author1
- Katherine Hill, lead author of the report, said: "Visually impaired people on low incomes draw on many different resources to try to maintain a reasonable living standard and take part in society. (pocklington.org.uk)
Treaty1
- In between these discussions, the SCCR also found time to have two short plenary sessions on the proposed broadcast treaty as well as working documents on exceptions for libraries and archives. (cis-india.org)
Report2
- A report being launched by national sight loss charity Thomas Pocklington Trust at Westminster on Wednesday 20th June found that state benefits, such as Personal Independence Payments, do not in most cases fully cover the additional cost of being visually impaired. (pocklington.org.uk)
- For the report, Lane County Public Health and LCG conducted an HIA to show how the proposed GHG-reduction policies and investments might affect current health conditions in the Eugene/Springfield metro area. (cdc.gov)
Services1
- 3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would accomplish the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-48c) in connection with the products and services proposed for addition to the Procurement List. (justia.com)
Image1
- The IoT and image processing concepts were successfully blended and it provides an alternative to aid the visually impaired person their daily business transaction activities in a better way. (bilpubgroup.com)
Regulations1
- Finally, conclusions and suggestions are proposed as reference for developing regulations and specialized agencies in libraries. (ntu.edu.tw)