Machine translation: past, present, future
Machine translation: past, present, future
Automatic text recognition for video indexing
MULTIMEDIA '96 Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Multimedia
TextFinder: An Automatic System to Detect and Recognize Text In Images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Recognizing Characters in Scene Images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Video OCR for Digital News Archive
CAIVD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 International Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases (CAIVD '98)
Character extraction of license plates from video
CVPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97)
Automatic Identification of Text in Digital Video Key Frames
ICPR '98 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition-Volume 1 - Volume 1
ICPR '98 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Smart Sight: A Tourist Assistant System
ISWC '99 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Automated generalization of translation examples
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Example-Based Machine Translation in the Pangloss system
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Towards automatic sign translation
HLT '01 Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research
Progress in Camera-Based Document Image Analysis
ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
Improved Text-Detection Methods for a Camera-based Text Reading System for Blind Persons
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Text Detection in Urban Scenes
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Text Detection in Urban Scenes
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
A Japanese text based mobile augmented reality application
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Posters
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A sign is something that suggests the presence of a fact, condition, or quality. Signs are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we are familiar with them. But sometimes they pose problems. For example, a tourist might not be able to understand signs in a foreign country. This paper discusses problems of automatic sign recognition and translation. We present a system capable of capturing images, detecting and recognizing signs, and translating them into a target language. We describe methods for automatic sign extraction and translation. We use a user-centered approach in system development. The approach takes advantage of human intelligence if needed and leverage human capabilities. We are currently working on Chinese sign translation. We have developed a prototype system that can recognize Chinese sign input from a video camera that is a common gadget for a tourist, and translate the signs into English or voice stream. The sign translation, in conjunction with spoken language translation, can help international tourists to overcome language barriers. The technology can also help a visually handicapped person to increase environmental awareness.