TY - BOOK AU - Maha Ahmed Kamal Elgarf AU - Elisabeth AndrÄ— , AU - Hazem Abbas , AU - Ionut Damian , TI - Facial expression sonification for the visually impaired / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Maha Ahmed Kamal Elgarf , KW - Digital Media Engineering and Technology KW - Facial expression sonification KW - Visually impaired N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - German University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Digital Media Engineering and Technology N2 - Being diagnosed with visual impairment presents a greal challenge for the daily comminication process of the visually impaired. Facial expression has been regarded as one of the richest channels to convey information during a comminication process. Consequently, this master thesis project aims at enabling the visually impaired to engage in more interactive conversations by transmitting facial expressions through non speech audio counds. The process starts from a pair of eye glasses that the visually impaired person wears UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -