Fatemeh, Swati and Ren successfully defended their PhD dissertations and are off to new adventures!
Our paper Improving the Accessibility of Mobile OCR Apps Via Interactive Modalities has been accepted at the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.
This article, co-authored by M. Cutter and R. Manduchi, proposes a new method to help a blind person use mobile OCR apps more efficiently by means of text spotting techniques coupled with an appropriate interface. The article can be found here.