Fuzzy image processing scheme for autonomous navigation of human blind

G Sainarayanan, R Nagarajan, S Yaacob - Applied Soft Computing, 2007 - Elsevier
The main objective of this work is to develop an electronic travel aid to assist the blinds for
obstacle identification in their navigation. This navigation assistance for visually impaired …

[PDF][PDF] Wearable real-time stereo vision for the visually impaired.

G Balakrishnan, G Sainarayanan, R Nagarajan… - Engineering …, 2007 - Citeseer
Visually impaired find their navigation difficult as they often lack the needed information for
bypassing obstacles and hazards. Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) are devices that use sensor …

[PDF][PDF] A stereo image processing system for visually impaired

G Balakrishnan, G Sainarayanan, R Nagarajan… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Citeseer
This paper presents a review on vision aided systems and proposes an approach for visual
rehabilitation using stereo vision technology. The proposed system utilizes stereo vision …

Stereo vision in blind navigation assistance

H Fernandes, P Costa, V Filipe… - 2010 World …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual impairment and blindness caused by infectious diseases has been greatly reduced,
but increasing numbers of people are at risk of age-related visual impairment. Visual …

State of the art review on walking support system for visually impaired people

E Hossain, MR Khan, R Muhida… - International Journal of …, 2011 - inderscienceonline.com
The technology for terrain detection and walking support system for blind people has rapidly
been improved the last couple of decades but to assist visually impaired people may have …

Providing accessibility to blind people using GIS

H Fernandes, N Conceição, H Paredes… - Universal Access in the …, 2012 - Springer
In everyday life, people need to move, whether in business or leisure. Navigation requires
spatial knowledge and ability to make decisions based on geographic information. Recently …

Word/phrase based answer type classification for bengali question answering system

MA Islam, MF Kabir… - … and Vision (ICIEV), 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper work demonstrated an analytical ability of question answer type classification
steps towards building a question answering system in Bengali language. In order to …

Role of object identification in sonification system for visually impaired

R Nagarajan, S Yaacob… - … 2003. Conference on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The role of object identification in a sonification system for navigation assistance to the
visually impaired (NAVI) is discussed. The developed system includes a single board …

An improved object identification for NAVI

R Nagarajan, G Sainarayanan… - 2004 IEEE Region 10 …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigation assistance for visually impaired (NAVI) is a vision substitute system designed to
assist blind people for autonomous navigation. NAVI working concept is based on'image to …

Stereopsis method for visually impaired to identify obstacles based on distance

G Balakrishnan, G Sainarayanan… - … on Image and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identification of obstacles in the real time environment is idempotent for human blind to
navigate freely without collision. This paper describes a methodology that is required to …