TY - GEN
T1 - Automated description generation for indoor floor maps
AU - Paladugu, Devi
AU - Maguluri, Hima Bindu
AU - Tian, Qiongjie
AU - Li, Baoxin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - People with visual impairment can face numerous challenges navigating a new environment. A practical need is to navigate through unfamiliar indoor environments such as school buildings, hotels, etc., for which commonly-used existing tools like canes, seeing-eye dogs and GPS devices cannot provide adequate support. We demonstrate a prototype system that aims at addressing this practical need. The input to the system is the name of the building/ establishment supplied by a user, which is used by a web crawler to determine the availability of a floor map on the corresponding website. If available, the map is downloaded and used by the proposed system to generate a verbal description giving an overview of the locations of key landmarks inside the map with respect to one another. Our preliminary survey and experiments indicate that this is a promising direction to pursue in supporting indoor navigation for the visually impaired.
AB - People with visual impairment can face numerous challenges navigating a new environment. A practical need is to navigate through unfamiliar indoor environments such as school buildings, hotels, etc., for which commonly-used existing tools like canes, seeing-eye dogs and GPS devices cannot provide adequate support. We demonstrate a prototype system that aims at addressing this practical need. The input to the system is the name of the building/ establishment supplied by a user, which is used by a web crawler to determine the availability of a floor map on the corresponding website. If available, the map is downloaded and used by the proposed system to generate a verbal description giving an overview of the locations of key landmarks inside the map with respect to one another. Our preliminary survey and experiments indicate that this is a promising direction to pursue in supporting indoor navigation for the visually impaired.
KW - Indoor Floor maps
KW - Navigation
KW - Verbal Description
KW - Visually Impaired
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U2 - 10.1145/2384916.2384958
DO - 10.1145/2384916.2384958
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869841851
SN - 9781450313216
T3 - ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 211
EP - 212
BT - ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
T2 - 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2012
Y2 - 22 October 2012 through 24 October 2012
ER -