An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people: issues, challenges and opportunities

A Khan, S Khusro - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

From image to language: A critical analysis of visual question answering (vqa) approaches, challenges, and opportunities

MF Ishmam, MSH Shovon, MF Mridha, N Dey - Information Fusion, 2024 - Elsevier
The multimodal task of Visual Question Answering (VQA) encompassing elements of
Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to generate answers …

Vizwiz grand challenge: Answering visual questions from blind people

D Gurari, Q Li, AJ Stangl, A Guo, C Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The study of algorithms to automatically answer visual questions currently is motivated by
visual question answering (VQA) datasets constructed in artificial VQA settings. We propose …

Interdependence as a frame for assistive technology research and design

CL Bennett, E Brady, SM Branham - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe interdependence for assistive technology design, a frame
developed to complement the traditional focus on independence in the Assistive Technology …

Captioning images taken by people who are blind

D Gurari, Y Zhao, M Zhang, N Bhattacharya - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
While an important problem in the vision community is to design algorithms that can
automatically caption images, few publicly-available datasets for algorithm development …

Automatic alt-text: Computer-generated image descriptions for blind users on a social network service

S Wu, J Wieland, O Farivar, J Schiller - … of the 2017 ACM conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We designed and deployed automatic alt-text (AAT), a system that applies computer vision
technology to identify faces, objects, and themes from photos to generate photo alt-text for …

" Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked?" What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions

A Stangl, MR Morris, D Gurari - Proceedings of the 2020 chi conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Access to digital images is important to people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). Many
contemporary image description efforts do not take into account this population's nuanced …

How blind people interact with visual content on social networking services

V Voykinska, S Azenkot, S Wu, G Leshed - Proceedings of the 19th acm …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we explore blind people's motivations, challenges, interactions, and
experiences with visual content on Social Networking Services (SNSs). We present findings …

Going beyond one-size-fits-all image descriptions to satisfy the information wants of people who are blind or have low vision

A Stangl, N Verma, KR Fleischmann… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Image descriptions are how people who are blind or have low vision (BLV) access
information depicted within images. To our knowledge, no prior work has examined how a …

AI and accessibility

MR Morris - Communications of the ACM, 2020 - dl.acm.org
AI and accessibility Page 1 JUNE 2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 6 | COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
35 viewpoints IMA GE B Y ANDRIJ BOR YS A SSOCIA TE S, USING SHUTTERS T OCK Bias …