Spatial navigation in the absence of vision has been investigated from a variety of
perspectives and disciplines. These different approaches have progressed our …

One of the most important limitations for people with visual impairment is the inability of
unassisted navigation and orientation in unfamiliar buildings. An low-cost indoor navigation …

We present a computer vision system that helps blind people find lost objects. To this end,
we combine color-and SIFT-based object detection with sonification to guide the hand of the …

BACKGROUND Image searching technologies may enable a user to obtain information
about an object in an image or locate a specific object within the image. The same process …

This paper presents an indoor auditory navigation system for blind and visually impaired
people using computer vision based approach. In our approach, fiducial markers …

Text information serves as an understandable and comprehensive indicator, which plays a
significant role in navigation and recognition in our daily lives. It is very difficult to access this …

The inability to recognize known individuals in the absence of audio or haptic cues severely
limits the visually impaired in their social interactions and puts them at risk from a security …

In this paper we present the first stage of a new approach to improve the precision and recall
of the content-based image retrieval task. To do this, we aim to combine three colour …

One of the most important limitations for people with visual impairment is the inability of
unassisted navigation and orientation in unfamiliar buildings. An low-cost indoor navigation …

Many activities of daily living such as getting dressed, preparing food, wayfinding, or
shopping rely heavily on visual information, and the inability to access that information can …