Towards making graphics accessible to blind people

There has been a lot of effort in making printed media accessible to low vision or blind individuals. Braille has been extensively utilized to make text accessible to the blind. Software that automatically converts text to speech has also been employed for this. However, the existing solutions are not adequate for conveying graphical information to low vision or blind individuals. Common practice is based on manually converting images to tactile. A tactile is a representation of an image that is accessible by touch. Manual conversion by tactile designers is a tedious and expensive process. This project aims to develop Artificial Intelligence models for converting graphics to tactile format. More specifically, this project aims to develop methods that can generalize to new categories of images.

Faculty Supervisor:

Majid Komeili

Student:

Partner:

T-Base Communications Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

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