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Current methods to help blind persons read text like menus, business cards, and book covers are inadequate because they assumed both the user and the captured scene are stationary. Furthermore, these methods cannot overcome the illumination problem. This paper presents an intelligent system to threshold the bus route number on a moving bus and to identify the bus route number from the binary images. Experimental results show that the proposed method uses less time complexity and achieves a higher detection rate than the gray level Otsu thresholding method.
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Cheng, CC., Tsai, CM. (2014). Using Red-Otsu Thresholding to Detect the Bus Routes Number for Helping Blinds to Take Bus. In: Ali, M., Pan, JS., Chen, SM., Horng, MF. (eds) Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07455-9_34
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