A review of sonification solutions in assistive systems for visually impaired people

A Lăpușteanu, A Morar, A Moldoveanu… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Visually impaired people (VIP) find it challenging to understand and gain
awareness of their surroundings. Most activities require the use of the auditory or tactile …

Seeing eye drone: a deep learning, vision-based UAV for assisting the visually impaired with mobility

L Grewe, G Stevenson - Proceedings of the ACM Turing Celebration …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Seeing Eye Drone assists low-vision persons with environment awareness performing
exploration and obstacle detection. The modalities of 3D (stereo) and 2D vision on a drone …

A hierarchical visual feature-based approach for image sonification

OK Toffa, M Mignotte - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new image sonification system that strives to help visually impaired
users access visual information via an audio (easily decodable) signal that is generated in …

Dataset and semantic based-approach for image sonification

OK Toffa, M Mignotte - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents an image-audio dataset and a mid-level image sonification system that
strives to help visually impaired users understand the semantic content of an image and …

Drone based user and heading detection using deep learning and stereo vision

L Grewe, G Stevenson - Signal Processing, Sensor …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The problem of assisting a low-vision person with environment awareness using a drone is
addressed. Specifically, the first stage task of detecting the User and their heading which …

Evaluating crowd sourced navigation for the visually impaired in a virtual environment

WL Khoo, G Olmschenk, Z Zhu… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdsourcing has been shown to be a powerful method for solving a variety of problems.
In this paper, we introduce an approach for allowing a crowd to help navigate a visually …

Contributions à la sonification d'image et à la classification de sons

OK Toffa - 2022 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier d'une part le problème de sonification d'image et de le
solutionner à travers de nouveaux modèles de correspondance entre domaines visuel et …