A new data trove could teach computers to tell blind people what they need to know

Its creators pose a challenge to machine vision researchers: use the information to make assistive technology better. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv February 27, 2018 One of the hardest tasks for computers is “visual question answering”—that is, answering a question about an image. And this is no theoretical brain-teaser: such skills could be [...]

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Cisco Collaborates on Phones with American Council of the Blind

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire This week Cisco is in San Diego for one of the biggest events in the accessibility world, the annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. It's amazing to see so much technology innovation happening in this space. And I'm grateful to work for a company that is developing solutions to enable [...]

2018-04-10T15:55:02-03:0022 March, 2018|Categories: Sem categoria|0 Comments

How blind players succeed at sports video games they’ve never seen

A few small accessibility changes can unlock a whole new playerbase. https://www.youtube.com/embed/k2EfkzStDNc?start=0&wmode=transparent SAN FRANCISCO — Blind people might not seem like a natural audience for most video games since they can’t experience the “video” part that’s a definitional piece of the experience. At a fascinating Game Developers Conference Presentation this week, though, EA [...]

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