Sensor-based assistive devices for visually-impaired people: Current status, challenges, and future directions

W Elmannai, K Elleithy - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there are 285 million visually-impaired
people worldwide. Among these individuals, there are 39 million who are totally blind. There …

Developing walking assistants for visually impaired people: A review

MM Islam, MS Sadi, KZ Zamli… - IEEE Sensors …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of walking assistants for visually impaired people has become a
prominent research area due to the rapid growth of these individuals in recent decades …

Event-based sensing and signal processing in the visual, auditory, and olfactory domain: a review

MH Tayarani-Najaran, M Schmuker - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The nervous systems converts the physical quantities sensed by its primary receptors into
trains of events that are then processed in the brain. The unmatched efficiency in information …

A highly accurate and reliable data fusion framework for guiding the visually impaired

WM Elmannai, KM Elleithy - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The world has approximately 253 million visually impaired (VI) people according to a report
by the world health organization (WHO) in 2014. Thirty-six million people are estimated to be …

Wearable obstacle avoidance electronic travel aids for blind and visually impaired individuals: A systematic review

P Xu, GA Kennedy, FY Zhao, WJ Zhang… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background Wearable obstacle avoidance electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been
developed to assist the safe displacement of blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) in …

Spiking cooperative stereo-matching at 2 ms latency with neuromorphic hardware

G Dikov, M Firouzi, F Röhrbein, J Conradt… - Biomimetic and Biohybrid …, 2017 - Springer
We demonstrate a spiking neural network that extracts spatial depth information from a
stereoscopic visual input stream. The system makes use of a scalable neuromorphic …

A mobility device for the blind with improved vertical resolution using dynamic vision sensors

L Everding, L Walger, VS Ghaderi… - 2016 IEEE 18th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an improved version of a wearable lightweight device to support visually
impaired people during their everyday lives by facilitating autonomous navigation and …

A comparative evaluation of the detection and tracking capability between novel event-based and conventional frame-based sensors

JP Boettiger - 2020 - scholar.afit.edu
Traditional frame-based technology continues to suffer from motion blur, low dynamic range,
speed limitations and high data storage requirements. Event-based sensors offer a potential …

A wearable vision-to-audio sensory substitution system based on deep learning for the visually impaired

Z Wang, H Li, J Chen, X Chai… - … Conference on Digital …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual impairment has caused serious influence on the human being and society. Due to
more sensitive hearing and touch, for visually impaired people, it is an available solution to …

A Navigation System based on Event Camera for People Living with Blindness and Vision Impairment

MS Ma, O Kavehei - 2024 International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neuromorphic sensing has drawn significant interest in automated sensing for its low
latency, low power consumption, and high throughput signal processing. Leveraging these …