Review of navigation assistive tools and technologies for the visually impaired

MD Messaoudi, BAJ Menelas, H Mcheick - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The visually impaired suffer greatly while moving from one place to another. They face
challenges in going outdoors and in protecting themselves from moving and stationary …

Wearable assistive devices for visually impaired: A state of the art survey

R Tapu, B Mocanu, T Zaharia - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in October 2017,
estimate that more than 253 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairment (VI) with …

Computer vision for assistive technologies

M Leo, G Medioni, M Trivedi, T Kanade… - Computer Vision and …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Unifying terrain awareness for the visually impaired through real-time semantic segmentation

K Yang, K Wang, LM Bergasa, E Romera, W Hu, D Sun… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Navigational assistance aims to help visually-impaired people to ambulate the environment
safely and independently. This topic becomes challenging as it requires detecting a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Unstructured road extraction and roadside fruit recognition in grape orchards based on a synchronous detection algorithm

X Zhou, X Zou, W Tang, Z Yan, H Meng… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Accurate road extraction and recognition of roadside fruit in complex orchard environments
are essential prerequisites for robotic fruit picking and walking behavioral decisions. In this …

Bayesian gabor network with uncertainty estimation for pedestrian lane detection in assistive navigation

HT Le, SL Phung, A Bouzerdoum - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic pedestrian lane detection is a challenging problem that is of great interest in
assistive navigation and autonomous driving. Such a detection system must cope well with …

Development of an embedded road boundary detection system based on deep learning

JW Perng, YW Hsu, YZ Yang, CY Chen… - Image and vision …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability to sense the surrounding environment is an important developing technology in
the field of automated vehicles. Lane line detection could determine a vehicle's travelable …

Laser data based automatic recognition and maintenance of road markings from MLS system

M Yang, Y Wan, X Liu, J Xu, Z Wei, M Chen… - Optics & Laser …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Mobile LiDAR Systems (MLSs) have recently been recognized as an effective way
to extract road markings. Although existing studies have achieved good accuracy (about …

Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes

TNA Nguyen, SL Phung… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pedestrian lane detection is an important task in many assistive and autonomous navigation
systems. This article presents a new approach for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured …

Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of vision-impaired people: Survey and experimental evaluation

Y Lei, SL Phung, A Bouzerdoum, HT Le, K Luu - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pedestrian lane detection is a crucial task in assistive navigation for vision-impaired people.
It can provide information on walkable regions, help blind people stay on the pedestrian …