Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged fiducial markers.

Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone

Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

This short Assets '07 demonstration paper from UC Santa Cruz and the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute describes a camera-phone-based wayfinding system for blind travellers. The core idea is to deploy small, cheap, pie-shaped colour markers in …
Magic Touch: Interacting with 3D Printed Graphics

Lei Shi, Ross McLachlan, Yuhang Zhao, Shiri Azenkot (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Magic Touch is a computer vision-based system that augments 3D printed tactile graphics with audio information, addressing a key limitation of physical models for blind users: while 3D printing can effectively convey shapes and textures, text annotat…
Marker-Assisted Recognition of Dynamic Content in Public Spaces

Andréa Britto Mattos, Ricardo Herrmann, Carlos Cardonha, Diego Gallo, Priscilla Avegliano, Sergio Borger (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper from IBM Research Brazil presents an image processing system that helps visually impaired and situationally disabled people (such as tourists in foreign countries) recognize dynamic content displayed on public information boards. The syste…