Toward Touching a Landscape in a Picture: Investigation of Groping Strategy about Tactile Images and Image Simplification Method

Authors:
Takayuki Shiose;Yasuhiro Kagiyama;Kiyohide Ito;Kazuhiko Mamada;Hiroshi Kawakami;Osamu Katai
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,;Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,;Future University-Hakodate,;School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba,;Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,;Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,
Venue:
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for "touching a landscape in a photograph." In concrete terms, it is an image processing to simplify images and making images tactile by a stereo copying machine. How much we simplify images depends on subject's groping strategy. Experiments are carried about three images which they are different in their complexity of texture. The results show that frequency of large hand movements correlate with complexity of image texture.