Literature Reviews

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

• Zebra Crossing Spotter: Automatic Population of Spatial Databases for Increased Safety of Blind Travelers

  Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan, Sergio Mascetti (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper presents a computer vision system that automatically detects zebra crosswalks by mining satellite imagery and Google Street View, with the goal of augmenting geographic information systems (GIS) to help blind travelers plan safer routes. K…

  • visual impairment
  • navigation
  • computer vision
  • pedestrian crossings
  • wayfinding
  • GIS
  • crowdsourcing
  • orientation and mobility