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 …

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 …

This paper presents a new holistic vision-based mobile assistive navigation system to help
blind and visually impaired people with indoor independent travel. The system detects …

Navigation robots have the potential to overcome some of the limitations of traditional
navigation aids for blind people, specially in unfamiliar environments. In this paper, we …

We present an assistive suitcase system, BBeep, for supporting blind people when walking
through crowded environments. BBeep uses pre-emptive sound notifications to help clear a …

People with visual impairments often have to rely on the assistance of sighted guides in
airports, which prevents them from having an independent travel experience. In order to …

Indoor navigation systems with prebuilt maps have shown great potential in navigating blind
people even in unfamiliar buildings. However, blind people cannot always benefit from them …

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 …

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 …

A novel visual and infrared sensor data-based system to assist visually impaired users in
detecting obstacles in their path while independently navigating indoors is presented. The …