Browsing by Author "Karkar A."

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    • A Bilingual Scene-To-Speech Mobile Based Application 

      Karkar A.; Puthren M.; Al-Maadeed S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Scene-To-Speech (STS) is the process of recognizing visual objects in a picture or a video to say aloud a descriptive text that represents the scene. The recent advancement in convolution neural network (CNN), a deep ...

    • A Scene-to-Speech Mobile based Application: Multiple Trained Models Approach 

      Karkar A.; Kunhoth J.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      The concept of Scene-to-Speech (STS) is to recognize elements in a captured image or a video clip to speak loudly an informative textual content that describes the scene. The contemporary progression in convolution neural ...

    • Comparative analysis of computer-vision and BLE technology based indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments 

      Kunhoth J.; Karkar A.; Al-Maadeed S.; Al-Attiyah A. ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)
      Background: Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision, ...

    • Mobile Assistive Technologies for Visual Impaired Users: A Survey 

      Karkar A.; Al-Maadeed S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      In this article, we summarize some of the recent advancements in assistive technologies that are designed for people with visual impairments (VI) and blind people. Present technology enables applications to be actively ...