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Line Recognition for Generating Accessible Line Plots

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Existing technologies identify individual lines in a line plot by matching the symbols in the legend. Identifying each symbol is crucial to create accessible graphics for people who are blind so that they provide the best resemblance possible to the original plot. This resemblance provides better communication between sighted and vision impaired users. In our work we use an existing network architecture and improve it in a way that it will get more semantic information out of the lines and their symbology. We present these line graphs in the GraVVITAS system, an approach for providing dynamic and refreshable accessible graphics, to be used by people who are blind.

Source: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops (ICDARW)

DOI: 10.1109/icdarw.2019.00008

Authors: Francesco Lombardi, Cagatay Goncu, Simone Marinai

Institutions: University of Florence, Monash University

Language: English

Topic: Digital Accessibility for Disabilities

Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2985993675