Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices
has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding …

Currently, several outdoor navigation and orientation electronic traveling aid (ETA) solutions
for visually impaired (VI) people are commercially available or in active development. This …

Notably valuable efforts have focused on helping people with special needs. In this work, we
build upon the experience from the BlindHelper smartphone outdoor pedestrian navigation …

Indoor localization technologies can enhance quality of life for blind people by enabling
them to independently explore and navigate indoor environments. Researchers typically …

This paper proposes a proof-of-concept for a novel automated indoor/outdoor navigation
system. Our proposed method shall enable an object/user equipped to be able to navigate …

Navigating indoor spaces is especially challenging for individuals with blindness and visual
impairments. Although many solutions currently exist, the acceptance of most of them is …

Finding obstacle-free paths in unknown environments is a big navigation issue for visually
impaired people and autonomous robots. Previous works focus on obstacle avoidance …

Visually impaired persons need electronic traveling aids (ETA) for detection and recognition
of obstacles, and navigation to desired destinations not only in outdoor but also in the indoor …

Mirror and glass are ubiquitous materials in the 3D indoor living environment. However, the
existing vision system always tends to neglect or misdiagnose them since they always …

While being studied for several decades, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has still
been attracting considerable attention from researchers. Previous studies tend to focus on …