Deep learning (DL) has recently changed the development of intelligent systems and is
widely adopted in many real-life applications. Despite their various benefits and potentials …

Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

The development of walking assistants for visually impaired people has become a
prominent research area due to the rapid growth of these individuals in recent decades …

In the last decades there has been a tremendous increase in demand for Assistive
Technologies (AT) useful to overcome functional limitations of individuals and to improve …

Methodologies that utilize Deep Learning offer great potential for applications that
automatically attempt to generate captions or descriptions about images and video frames …

Assistive devices for visually impaired people (VIP) which support daily traveling and
improve social inclusion are developing fast. Most of them try to solve the problem of …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for
people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime …

Given the growth in the numbers of visually impaired (VI) people in low-income countries,
the development of affordable electronic travel aid (ETA) systems employing devices …

This paper presents a computer vision based sensory substitution device for the visually
impaired. Its main objective is to provide the users with a 3D representation of the …

In this paper, we introduce a real-time face recognition (and announcement) system targeted
at aiding the blind and low-vision people. The system uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor as a …