Description Research and Innovation Lab
Imagining and building the tools for a more accessible future in education, employment, and entertainment for people with visual disabilities.
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ActiveYouDescribe
Read MoreYouDescribe is a free, web-based platform for adding audio description to YouTube content.
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CompletedAlgorithmic Automated Description (AAD)
Read MoreAutomated algorithmic description (AAD) uses existing machine-vision techniques to automate specific aspects of description such as camera motion, scene changes, face identification, and the reading of printed text. Such events could be identified by computer routines that automatically add annotations to the video.
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CompletedAudio/Tactile BART Station Maps
Read MoreThis collaborative project between Smith-Kettlewell and the San Francisco LightHouse applies Smartpen-Based audio/tactile graphics tools to improve orientation and wayfinding by travelers with visual disabilities in and around unfamiliar transit stations.
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Crowd-Sourced Description for Web-Based Video (CSD)
Read MoreThe Descriptive Video Exchange Project focuses on crowd-sourced techniques for describing DVD media.
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Choreographed and Orchestrated Video Annotation (COVA)
Read MoreChoreographed and Orchestrated media refers to a relatively new concept involving different aspects of a coordinated media presentation coming from different networked devices. In this case, COVA will allow video annotations such as audio descriptions to be played from a personal device such as a smartphone, while a primary video presentation is being played on a completely separate device such as a projector in a theater.
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InactiveDescriptive Video Exchange (DVX)
Read MoreThis innovative technology permitted wiki-style crowd-sourcing of video description in a completely new way, opening the door to amateur description provided for any video content, and distributed to anyone without modifying or redistributing the original video in any way.
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Expanded Populations Research Agenda for Description (EPRAD)
Read MoreBridge Multimedia is collaborating with the VDRDC and the DLN to develop EPRAD, a research road map to identify the critical questions that will improve our evidence-based understanding of how desc
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InactiveState of the Science Conference On Rehabilitation Technology & Methods For a Changing Population
Read MoreDate: Friday, December 4, 2015
Location: The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, 2318 Fillmore St., San Francisco CA 94115
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Video Description Research and Development Center
Read MoreThe Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRDC) investigates innovative technologies and techniques for making online video more accessible to blind and visually-impaired students and consumers.
