Tools and technologies for blind and visually impaired navigation support: a review

B Kuriakose, R Shrestha, FE Sandnes - IETE Technical Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

Indoor positioning and wayfinding systems: a survey

J Kunhoth, AG Karkar, S Al-Maadeed… - Human-centric Computing …, 2020 - Springer
Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

Review of navigation assistive tools and technologies for the visually impaired

MD Messaoudi, BAJ Menelas, H Mcheick - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The visually impaired suffer greatly while moving from one place to another. They face
challenges in going outdoors and in protecting themselves from moving and stationary …

A systematic review of urban navigation systems for visually impaired people

FEZ El-Taher, A Taha, J Courtney, S Mckeever - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when
undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive …

Virtual-blind-road following-based wearable navigation device for blind people

J Bai, S Lian, Z Liu, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To help the blind people walk to the destination efficiently and safely in indoor environment,
a novel wearable navigation device is presented in this paper. The locating, way-finding …

[HTML][HTML] DeepNAVI: A deep learning based smartphone navigation assistant for people with visual impairments

B Kuriakose, R Shrestha, FE Sandnes - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Navigation assistance is an active research area, where one aim is to foster independent
living for people with vision impairments. Despite the fact that many navigation assistants …

Smartphone-based computer vision travelling aids for blind and visually impaired individuals: A systematic review

A Budrionis, D Plikynas, P Daniušis… - Assistive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Given the growth in the numbers of visually impaired (VI) people in low-income countries,
the development of affordable electronic travel aid (ETA) systems employing devices …

Making shopping easy for people with visual impairment using mobile assistive technologies

M Elgendy, C Sik-Lanyi, A Kelemen - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
People with visual impairment face various difficulties in their daily activities in comparison
to people without visual impairment. Much research has been done to find smart solutions …

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 …

A CNN-based wearable assistive system for visually impaired people walking outdoors

IH Hsieh, HC Cheng, HH Ke, HC Chen, WJ Wang - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, we propose an assistive system for helping visually impaired people walk
outdoors. This assistive system contains an embedded system—Jetson AGX Xavier …