Abstract

In recent years, we have assisted to an impressive advance of computer vision algorithms, based on image processing and artificial intelligence. Among the many applications of computer vision, in this paper we investigate on the potential impact for enhancing the cultural and physical accessibility of cultural heritage sites. By using a common smartphone as a mediation instrument with the environment, we demonstrate how convolutional networks can be trained for recognizing monuments in the surroundings of the users, thus enabling the possibility of accessing contents associated to the monument itself, or new forms of fruition for visually impaired people. Moreover, computer vision can also support autonomous mobility of people with visual disabilities, for identifying pre-defined paths in the cultural heritage sites, and reducing the distance between digital and real world.

Details

Title
A Cultural Heritage Experience for Visually Impaired People
Author
Alice Lo Valvo 1 ; Garlisi, Domenico 2 ; Laura Giarr´e 3 ; Croce, Daniele 4 ; Giuliano, Fabrizio 1 ; Tinnirello, Ilenia 5 

 DI, Universit`a di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 9, 90128 Palermo, Italy 
 DI, Universit`a di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 9, 90128 Palermo, Italy; CNIT Consortium, Viale G.P. Usberti, 181/A - 43124 Parma, Italy 
 DIEF, Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via P. Vivarelli, 10, 41125 Modena, Italy 
 DI, Universit`a di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 9, 90128 Palermo, Italy; DI, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. 
 DI, Universit`a di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 9, 90128 Palermo, Italy; DI, Universit`a di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 9, 90128 Palermo, Italy 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Nov 2020
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2562845550
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.