Developing a Color Identification Assistance Application for Individuals with Color Blindness
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Abstract
Color blindness is a visual impairment that results in a distorted perception of colors. It affects approximately 8% of males and 0.5% of females, and there is no cure for this condition. Visual aids such as special glasses or mobile apps may help overcoming these limitations. However, many apps apply an image processing to the entire image captured by the camera which can be confusing, as it may also change the perception of other non-conflicting colors. In this work we present the development of a vision-based interface, a mobile application, aiming at enhancing only those colors that may cause confusion for their identification. The system presents two working modes: the filter mode which highlights the conflicting color regions merged with a personalized color and the gray-scale mode that modifies all the image to a gray-scale but the conflicting colors which will remain unmodified.
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