title: Detecting Signage and Doors for Blind Navigation and Wayfinding.
abstract: Signage plays a very important role to find destinations in applications of navigation and wayfinding. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to detect doors and signage to help blind people accessing unfamiliar indoor environments. In order to eliminate the interference information and improve the accuracy of signage detection, we first extract the attended areas by using a saliency map. Then the signage is detected in the attended areas by using a bipartite graph matching. The proposed method can handle multiple signage detection. Furthermore, in order to provide more information for blind users to access the area associated with the detected signage, we develop a robust method to detect doors based on a geometric door frame model which is independent to door appearances. Experimental results on our collected datasets of indoor signage and doors demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method.
authors.forename: Shuihua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yingli
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tian
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