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 …

Helping the blind to get through COVID-19: Social distancing assistant using real-time semantic segmentation on RGB-D video

M Martinez, K Yang, A Constantinescu, R Stiefelhagen - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on our daily lives. Social
distancing is one of the measures that has been implemented with the aim of slowing the …

Around-the-head tactile system for supporting micro navigation of people with visual impairments

OB Kaul, M Rohs, M Mogalle, B Simon - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Tactile patterns are a means to convey navigation instructions to pedestrians and are
especially helpful for people with visual impairments. This article presents a concept to …

Smartphone-based obstacle detection for the visually impaired

A Caldini, M Fanfani, C Colombo - … , Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2015 …, 2015 - Springer
One of the main problems that visually impaired people have to deal with is moving
autonomously in an unknown environment. Currently, the most used autonomous walking …

Vision sensory substitution to aid the blind in reading and object recognition

PG Bhat, DK Rout, BN Subudhi… - … Conference on Image …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision Sensory Substitution is a non-invasive rehabilitating procedure for the blind, which
provides visual information to them via any of their functioning senses. In this paper, the …

Mobile interactive image sonification for the blind

T Wörtwein, B Schauerte, K Müller… - … Helping People with …, 2016 - Springer
Web-based, mobile sonification offers a highly flexible way to give blind users access to
graphical information and to solve various everyday as well as job-related tasks. The …

Check for updates BlindEye: Blind Assistance Using Deep Learning

B Shabbir, A Salman, S Akhtar… - Computing, Internet of …, 2024 - books.google.com
Blind Community faces significant challenges in independently navigating their
surroundings, often relying on white canes or assistance from others. These traditional …

BlindEye: Blind Assistance Using Deep Learning

B Shabbir, A Salman, S Akhtar, MA Naeem - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Blind Community faces significant challenges in independently navigating their
surroundings, often relying on white canes or assistance from others. These traditional …

Camassia: monocular interactive mobile way sonification

S Ritterbusch, G Jaworek - … Helping People with Special Needs: 16th …, 2018 - Springer
Real-time camera image analysis informs the walking person about the way in front by
sonification. For visually impaired people, this opens a new way to experience their …

Phone based Video Processing Aimed at Outdoor Guidance for the Visually Impaired

SPPC Langenkamp, MR Abid - … of the 2nd International Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper discusses an outdoor guidance system that can be implemented on a
smartphone. The purpose of such a system would be to assist the blind or visually impaired …