Abstract

Braille letters is characters designed for the blind, composed of six embossed points, arranged in a standard braille character. Braille letters is touched and read using fingers, therefore the sensitivity of the fingers is important. Those characters need to be memorized, so it is very difficult to be learned. The aim of this research is to create a braille characters recognition system and translate it to alpha-numeric text. Webcam camera is used to capture braille image from braille characters on the paper sheet. Cropping, grayscale, thresholding, erotion, and dilation techniques are used for image preprocessing. Then, find contour method and image recognition lookup table method are used to recognize the braille characters. The system can recognize braille characters with 100% accuracy even when the braille image is tilted up to 0.5 degrees.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationBridging the Knowledge between Academic, Industry, and Community, ICEEI 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages699-703
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467373197
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Dec 2015
Event5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics, ICEEI 2015 - Legian-Bali, Indonesia
Duration: 10 Aug 201511 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics: Bridging the Knowledge between Academic, Industry, and Community, ICEEI 2015

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics, ICEEI 2015
Country/TerritoryIndonesia
CityLegian-Bali
Period10/08/1511/08/15

Keywords

  • Find contour
  • braille characters
  • image processing
  • webcam

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