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    An Automated Approach to Mitigate Transcription Errors in Braille Texts for the Portuguese Language

    Data de publicação: 29/04/2021

    The quota system in Brazil made it possible to include blind students
    in higher education. Teachers’ lack of knowledge about the braille
    system can represent a barrier between them and students who use
    it for writing and reading. Computer-vision-based transcription
    solutions represent mechanisms for reducing understanding restrictions
    on this system. However, such tools face nuisances inherent
    to image processing systems, e.g., illumination, noise, and scale,
    harming the result. This paper presents an automated approach
    to mitigate transcription errors in braille texts for the Portuguese
    language. We propose a selection function, combined with dictionaries,
    that provides the best correspondence of words based on
    their braille representation. We validated our proposal on a dataset
    of synthetic images by submitting them to different noise levels
    and testing the proposal’s robustness. Experimental results confirm
    the effectiveness of the solution compared to a standard approach.
    As a contribution of this paper, we expect to provide a method to
    support robust and adaptable solutions to real use conditions.

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