Sign Finder
This project seeks to develop a computer vision-based system that allows a visually impaired traveler to find and read informational signs, such as signs labeling office doors, streets, restrooms and Exit signs.
Link to open source code
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Other Publications
. (2012). Towards a real-time system for finding and reading signs for visually impaired users. In Computers Helping People with Special Needs (pp. 41–47). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
. (2016). Sign Finder Application - Technical Report.
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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
Read MoreThe Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers
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Coughlan Lab
Read MoreThe goal of our laboratory is to develop and test assistive technology for blind and visually impaired persons that is enabled by computer vision and other sensor technologies.
Current
- Ender Tekin - Associate Scientist at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Giovanni Fusco - Chief Technology Officer, Dreamwaves
- Huiying Shen - Staff
- James Coughlan - Senior Scientist - Coughlan Lab Director
