The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

Indoor navigation has remained an active research area for the last decade. Unlike outdoor
environments, indoor environments have additional challenges, such as weak signals, low …

Globally, more than 250 million people have impaired vision and face challenges navigating
outside their homes, affecting their independence, mental health, and physical health …

Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when
undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive …

Navigation assistance is an active research area, where one aim is to foster independent
living for people with vision impairments. Despite the fact that many navigation assistants …

In recent years, we have assisted with an impressive advance in augmented reality systems
and computer vision algorithms, based on image processing and artificial intelligence …

Most of our daily activities hinge on our ability to perceive our surroundings, with our eyes
serving as pivotal sensory receptors. Our brain processes the visual data captured by our …

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 …

One of the major challenges for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people is traveling safely to
cross intersections on foot. Many countries are now generating audible signals at crossings …