Opto-electrotactile Feedback Enabled Text-line Tracking Control for A Finger-wearable Reading Aid for the Blind
Mehdi Rahimi,Yantao Shen,Cong Peng,Zhiming Liu,Fang Jiang,Mehdi Rahimi,Yantao Shen,Cong Peng,Zhiming Liu,Fang Jiang
In this paper, to achieve the goal of aiding the blind and visually impaired (BVI) to read any text not written in Braille, a custom-built, finger-wearable, and electro-tactile based Braille reading system with its Rapid Optical Character Recognition (R-OCR) method is developed. The R-OCR is capable of processing text information in real time using a miniature fish-eye imaging device mounted at th...
