Project Proposal

Bengali Braille to Text TranslationCourse: SE 801- Project

Date: 14-Aug-2016

Presented by

Minhas KamalStudent of BSSE 8th SemesterInstitute of Information TechnologyUniversity of Dhaka

Supervised by

Dr. Mohammad ShoyaibAssociate ProfessorInstitute of Information TechnologyUniversity of Dhaka

Contents

● Motivation● Background● Objective● Methodology● Scope● Assumptions● Deliverables● Timescale● Resources

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What is Braille?

Braille is a specialized writing system for visually impaired people, where raised dots on embossed paper are used as tactile alphabet.

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Motivation

● Help The Sightless ● Digitally Interpret Analog Data

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Background

● Get every bit of information in digital form. ● Very few researches have been performed over

Bengali Braille to text translation.● No single open source tool available for this

translation purpose.

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Objective

Bengali Braille to Text Translator

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Braille Text

Methodology

1. Enhance Input Image2. Detect Dots3. Recognize Patterns4. Map Patterns to Characters5. Write Output to A Text File

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Scope

1. Input image format- *.png or *.jpg 2. One-sided embossment3. Character range- Bengali alphabets (অ-আ, ক- �ঁ), their diacritic and abbreviated forms, numbers (০-৯), and common punctuation marks.4. Output- a text file

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Assumptions

Scanned image-1. will not have any rotation or skew2. background will be white3. Random and Banding noise will be at minimum, and no Fixed Pattern noise will exist

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Deliverables

● A Software Installation File● User Manual● Source Code

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Timescale 10

Resources

Hardware Requirement-● A Personal Computer● A Scanner

Software Requirement-● Java Runtime Environment

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THANKS