Braille Converter For Exam 13 057 Agenda 1

Braille Converter For Exam 13 -057

Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Introduction Research Problem Objectives Methodology Users & Benefits Expected Outputs References Work Break Down Structure

Background What is Braille? Braille is a series of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading printed material. Teachers, parents, and others who are not visually impaired ordinarily read Braille with their eyes. Braille is not a language. Rather, it is a code by which languages such as English or Sinhala may be written and read.

Background cont. . . § In this system targets General exams in Sri Lanka like Ordinary Level(OL) or Advance Level(AL) § Basically exam paper creator only creates English version of the exam paper § If he needs to create Braille version of that paper he need external person who expert in Braille language § That conversion process is time consuming and unsecure § Using this system exam paper creator can convert standard exam paper to Braille paper by not getting any help of external person

Background cont. . . • And also who answer the Braille version exam paper write Braille version answer • That Braille answer cant read examiner because he haven't any knowledge about Braille language • Then he must convert it into standard text(English) with the help of external Braille experts • That is time consuming approach • Using this system can be converted Braille version answer sheet into standard text document in English • All above operations based on image processing technique call Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and template matching

Existing systems and differentiate our project Existing Systems and Web applications – These are the windows applications • RTFC braille converter 7. 04 • Mitranetra Braille Converter • Dolphin Computer Access : Easy. Converter (multi language) – These are the web base Braille converters • Libbraille : http: //libbraille. org/translator. php • Braille. Translator. org : http: //www. brailletranslator. org/ • Braille Translator v 1. 41 : http: //www. mathsisfun. com/braille-translation. html

Existing systems and differentiate our project cont. . . All those are not support scanned document convert to Braille document and the opposite conversion By using Optical Character recognition(OCR) techniques.

Research Problems • We are tying to prevent below issues and wastages in the human interaction procedures • Involving so many people is time and money wasting. Examiner himself can translates the exam paper into Braille version without interfering any 3 rd party • Privacy is the main prior in examinations. By involving so many people, exam information can be leak out

Research Objectives • Common Objectives – To provide a perfect solution for how to convert Braille words into computer readable format and Standard English words into Braille words – To implement Offline Character Recognition System for Braille character recognition – To reduce the wasting time of typing Braille version of the exam paper or any other document – To provide the facility of editing the converted document after the conversion by providing an editor – To recognize words in the scanned document by achieving accuracy level between 80% - 90%

Methodologies

Convert the Braille answer sheet to the English • Scan the Braille answer sheet • Enhance the scanned answer sheet requisite for OCR • Match the Braille characters with the Data base characters • Conclude the English words commensurate with the Braille words • Get the English answer sheet

Create the Braille Examination paper • Load the English Exam paper • Enhance the scanned paper requisite for OCR • Recognition the characters • Match the characters with the Data base and identify the Braille characters • Conclude the Braille words commensurate with the English words • Get the Braille exam paper

Applicable techniques • Binarization • Image enhancing techniques • Filtering the characters • Character segmentation • Word segmentation

Overall System Diagram Exam paper creator Generated Braille exam paper Generated text Answer sheet Create exam paper Blind candidate Text to braille converter e-Exam paper Print exam paper Printed exam paper (hard copy) Braille to Text converter Converter Exam paper’s Scanned Image Scan text paper or Braille paper Braille Answer Sheets Scanned Image Braille Answer Sheet

System Architecture Scanned Braille Answer Sheet Filtering Character Segmentation Scanned Exam Paper Enhance Image English Character Database Braille Character Database Features Extraction Create Braille Exam Paper Create English Answer Sheet Post Configuration English Answer Sheet Braille Exam paper

Users profile Target audience 1. Exam paper creator 2. Examiner 3. Blind students How it affect to users : • After creating regular exam paper it convert in to Braille version of exam paper and it gives to candidate who sitting exam • And that person write answers by using braille characters • That answer sheet convert in to readable standard document

Tools and Technologies • Image Enhancement • Adaptive Binarization • Filtering • Character Segmentation • Histogram profile • Character Recognition • Template Matching • Post Processing • Noisy channel Model • Character based segmentation model • Bigram Language model

Tools and Technologies cont. . . • Open. CV : using Aforge. NET 2. 2. 4 wrapper to visual c# (Open Source Computer Vision Library) • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 : Visual C# (Integrated development environment) • MSSQL 2008 : ( data base )

Benefits of using Braille Converter • Easy to examine answer sheets – Because Braille answer sheet also converts into normal English paper, its easy to correct answer papers • Easy to make papers – Both normal vision and blind vision papers can create by participation of limited people

Expected Results • When converting a Braille document into word document, it should be accurate at least 80%-90% • When converting a word document into braille document, it should be accurate at least 80%-90% • Less time consuming and minimize operational cost

References [1] Universal Braille Writer. [Online] Available: http: //www. dellchallenge. org/projects/universal-braille-writer [2] Transforming Braille. [Online] Available: http: //www. daisy. org/projects/transforming-braille [3] The University of Edinburgh. [Online] Available: http: //www. ed. ac. uk/schools-departments/information-services/helpconsultancy/accessibility/creating-materials/braille-documents [4] Braille Without Borders. [Online] Available: http: //www. braillewithoutborders. org/ENGLISH/index_bwb. html [5] Braille-Go-Round. [Online] Available: https: //sites. google. com/site/brailleproject/

Work Brake Down Structure Task Allocated Member 1 Detection of Braille characters in the above edited image. A character of English alphabet is mapped corresponding to each code. And convert it into a printable English answer sheet version. IT 10 1589 82 Ranasinghe A. D. E. S 2 Analysis the characters in the Braille answer sheet. And make the dots (Braille characters) in the image. IT 10 1904 94 Chamalika Hewawitharana G. H. P 3 Extraction of characters in the examination paper and it converts to an Image. And make the characters in the image useful to reorganize format. IT 10 2284 18 Ranaweera R. K. I. M 4 Detection of English characters in the above edited image. And convert it into a printable Braille paper version. IT 10 1840 04 Gunawardhana R. D

Group Members 1. 2. 3. 4. IT 10 1589 82 IT 10 2284 18 IT 10 1904 94 IT 10 1840 04 Ranasinghe A. D. E. S Ranaweera R. K. I. M Chamalika Hewawitharana G. H. P Gunawardhana R. D Group Title – Braille Converter For Exams Group Number - 13 -057