Assistive technologies for blind people are showing a fast growth, providing useful tools to
support daily activities and to improve social inclusion. Most of these technologies are …

Currently, over a billion people, including children (or about 15% of the world's population),
are estimated to be living with disability, and this figure is going to increase to beyond two …

Visual impaired people have navigation and mobility problems on roads. Up to now, many
approaches have been proposed to help these people navigate around using different …

A simple, remote-sensed method of detection of traces of petroleum in soil combining
artificial intelligence (AI) with mid-infrared (MIR) laser spectroscopy is presented. A portable …

This paper introduces a new portable camera-based method for helping blind people to
recognize indoor objects. Unlike state-of-the-art techniques, which typically perform the …

A computer vision-based wayfinding and navigation aid can improve the mobility of blind
and visually impaired people to travel independently. In this chapter, we focus on RGB-D …

The customer journey of a public transport service for visually impaired people has relatively
few stages, but the transitions between different channels of the customer journey are …

Object recognition forms a substantial need for blind and visually impaired individuals. This
paper proposes a new multiobject recognition framework. It consists of coarsely checking …

Advances in technology can provide a lot of support for visually impaired (VI) persons. In
particular, computer vision and machine learning can provide solutions for object detection …

Public transport is vital to visually impaired people. In particular, they heavily rely upon the
bus network that has a larger coverage area than other forms of public transportation. We …