Research Article

Development of a System to Assist Automatic Translation of Hand-Drawn Maps into Tactile Graphics and Its Usability Evaluation

Table 1

Experimental results are as follows:   is the number of all objects for the symbol, is the number of objects correctly classified as the symbol, is the number of objects classified as the symbol, is precision, is recall, and is -measure.

Symbol (%) (%) (%)

Traffic signal 50 50 52 96.2 100 98.1
Destination 15 15 15 100 100 100
Departure place 15 14 14 100 93.3 96.5
Landmark 40 38 38 100 95.0 97.4

Cross 130 125 125 100 96.2 98.1
Arrow 122 121 121 100 99.2 99.6

Route 15 14 16 87.5 93.3 90.3
Railway 28 28 28 100 100 100