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 …

A qualitative and quantitative analysis of research in mobility technologies for visually impaired people

J Madake, S Bhatlawande, A Solanke… - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assistive technology in rehabilitation programs is vital for people with vision impairments
worldwide. The term “blind assistive technology” refers to mobility devices specifically …

Assistive systems for visually impaired persons: challenges and opportunities for navigation assistance

GI Okolo, T Althobaiti, N Ramzan - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
The inability to see makes moving around very difficult for visually impaired persons. Due to
their limited movement, they also struggle to protect themselves against moving and non …

Intelligent environments and assistive technologies for assisting visually impaired people: a systematic literature review

LR Souza, R Francisco, JE Rosa Tavares… - Universal Access in the …, 2024 - Springer
Intelligent environments (IE) refer to physical spaces imbued with pervasive and seamless
intelligence, created to proactively support individuals in their daily routines. Developments …

Unifying terrain awareness through real-time semantic segmentation

K Yang, LM Bergasa, E Romera… - 2018 IEEE Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active research on computer vision accelerates the progress in autonomous driving.
Following this trend, we aim to leverage the recently emerged methods for Intelligent …

Robustifying semantic cognition of traversability across wearable RGB-depth cameras

K Yang, LM Bergasa, E Romera, K Wang - Applied optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Semantic segmentation represents a promising means to unify different detection tasks,
especially pixel-wise traversability perception as the fundamental enabler in robotic vision …

Visually impaired aid using convolutional neural networks, transfer learning, and particle competition and cooperation

F Breve, CN Fischer - 2020 International Joint Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigation and mobility are some of the major problems faced by visually impaired people
in their daily lives. Advances in computer vision led to the proposal of some navigation …

A Smart Clothing Approach for Augmenting Mobility of Visually Impaired People

S Bhatlawande, R Borse, A Solanki, S Shilaskar - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As per World Health Organization (WHO), a total of around 2.2 billion of human population in
the world has visual problem to severe or minor extent. In this paper, an assistive system is …

A frequency domain classifier of steady-state visual evoked potentials using deep separable convolutional neural networks

M Attia, I Hettiarachchi, S Mohamed… - … on Systems, Man …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain computer interface (BCI) systems
has attracted paramount amount of attention due to their higher signal to noise ratio and …

Semantic perception of curbs beyond traversability for real-world navigation assistance systems

K Yang, LM Bergasa, E Romera, D Sun… - … and Safety (ICVES), 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent Vehicles (IV) and navigational assistance for the Visually Impaired (VI) are
becoming highly coupled, both fulfilling safety-critical tasks towards the utopia of all traffic …