In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, billions of sensors and devices collect and process data
from the environment, transmit them to cloud centers, and receive feedback via the Internet …

Background When designing and developing patient decision aids, guidelines recommend
involving patients and stakeholders. There are myriad ways to do this. We aimed to describe …

The marginalization of people with disabilities, such as visually impaired individuals (VIIs),
has driven scientists to take advantage of the fast growth of smart technologies and develop …

With an increasing number of kids diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),
countries face a shortage of resources for efficient delivery of autism support. Social media …

Cheap, ubiquitous, high-resolution digital cameras have led to opportunities that demand
camera-based text understanding, such as wearable computing or assistive technology …

CAPTCHA is a standard defence mechanism against bots, or automated programs, that
attempt to use web-based services meant for human users. While there are many different …

Text data in an image present useful information for annotation, indexing and structuring of
images. The gathered information from images can be applied for devices for impaired …

This research paper describes the implementation of a prototype device for both Visual and
Hearing impaired persons get information from Speech converting to Braille output. For this …

The paper, supported with a review of the literature on image description technologies,
introduces an alternative approach that can automatically generate audio description of …

Embedded applications on mobile phones are reaching impressive goals thanks to the
current powerful smartphones. This work is focused on text recognition applications from …