Grant: Alliance Grants
Carleton University
$45,000.00
Towards making graphics accessible to blind people
EF 2024-25
Résumé
There has been a lot of effort in making printed media accessible to low vision or blind individuals. Braille has been extensively utilized to make text accessible to the blind. Software that automatically converts text to speech has also been employed for this. However, the existing solutions are not adequate for conveying graphical information to low vision or blind individuals. Common practice is based on manually converting images to tactile. A tactile is a representation of an image that is accessible by touch. Manual conversion by tactile designers is a tedious and expensive process. This project will follow two directions: 1) Developing methods based on Artificial Intelligence for converting maps to tactile format. 2) developing methods that can generalize to new categories of images.
Programme
Alliance Grants
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
584653-2023
Name nom
Komeili, Majid M
Department département
Computer Science, School of
Organization id
23
Institution établissement
Carleton University
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2024
Competition year année de concours
2023
Award amount
45000
Program id
ALLRP
Program name en
Alliance Grants
Program name fr
Subventions Alliance
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
802
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Information systems and technology
Area of application fr
Systèmes d'information et technologie de l'information
Research subject code
2800
Research subject group en
Artificial intelligence
Research subject group fr
Intelligence artificielle
Research subject en
Artificial intelligence (computer vision, use2603)
Research subject fr
Intelligence artificielle (vision artificielle, utiliser 2603)
Field of research list names en
Not available
Field of research list names fr
Non disponible
Socioeconomic objective list names en
Not available
Socioeconomic objective list names fr
Non disponible
Application title
Towards making graphics accessible to blind people
Keywords
accessibility; artificial intelligence; computer vision; image; machine learning; tactile
Application summary
There has been a lot of effort in making printed media accessible to low vision or blind individuals. Braille has been extensively utilized to make text accessible to the blind. Software that automatically converts text to speech has also been employed for this. However, the existing solutions are not adequate for conveying graphical information to low vision or blind individuals. Common practice is based on manually converting images to tactile. A tactile is a representation of an image that is accessible by touch. Manual conversion by tactile designers is a tedious and expensive process. This project will follow two directions: 1) Developing methods based on Artificial Intelligence for converting maps to tactile format. 2) developing methods that can generalize to new categories of images.
