Indoor navigation systems for visually impaired persons: Mapping the features of existing technologies to user needs

D Plikynas, A Žvironas, A Budrionis, M Gudauskis - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, several outdoor navigation and orientation electronic traveling aid (ETA) solutions
for visually impaired (VI) people are commercially available or in active development. This …

Research advances of indoor navigation for blind people: A brief review of technological instrumentation

D Plikynas, A Žvironas, M Gudauskis… - IEEE Instrumentation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blind persons need electronic traveling aid (ETA) solutions for better orientation and
navigation in unfamiliar indoor environments, with embedded features for detection and …

Deep learning based wearable assistive system for visually impaired people

Y Lin, K Wang, W Yi, S Lian - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose a deep learning based assistive system to improve the
environment perception experience of visually impaired (VI). The system is composed of a …

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 …

Review of substitutive assistive tools and technologies for people with visual impairments: recent advancements and prospects

ZJ Muhsin, R Qahwaji, F Ghanchi… - Journal on Multimodal User …, 2024 - Springer
The development of many tools and technologies for people with visual impairment has
become a major priority in the field of assistive technology research. However, many of …

A wearable device for indoor imminent danger detection and avoidance with region-based ground segmentation

Z Li, F Song, BC Clark, DR Grooms, C Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Avoiding objects independently in indoor environments for individuals with severe visual
impairment is one of the significant challenges in daily life. This paper presents a wearable …

A smart context-aware hazard attention system to help people with peripheral vision loss

O Younis, W Al-Nuaimy, F Rowe, MH Alomari - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Peripheral vision loss results in the inability to detect objects in the peripheral visual field
which affects the ability to evaluate and avoid potential hazards. A different number of …

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 …

Floor extraction and door detection for visually impaired guidance

B Berenguel-Baeta, M Guerrero-Viu… - … , Robotics and Vision …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding obstacle-free paths in unknown environments is a big navigation issue for visually
impaired people and autonomous robots. Previous works focus on obstacle avoidance …

Indoor electronic traveling aids for visually impaired: systemic review

A Zvironas, M Gudauskis… - … on computational science …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visually impaired persons need electronic traveling aids (ETA) for detection and recognition
of obstacles, and navigation to desired destinations not only in outdoor but also in the indoor …