[HTML][HTML] Towards assisting visually impaired individuals: A review on current status and future prospects

M Mashiata, T Ali, P Das, Z Tasneem… - … and Bioelectronics: X, 2022 - Elsevier
Visually impaired people require support with regular tasks including navigating, detecting
obstacles, and maintaining safety, especially in both indoor and outdoor environments. As a …

Recent advances in 3D data acquisition and processing by time-of-flight camera

Y He, S Chen - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional (3D) data acquisition and real-time processing is a critical issue in an
artificial vision system. The develo** time-of-flight (TOF) camera as a real-time vision …

Designing AR visualizations to facilitate stair navigation for people with low vision

Y Zhao, E Kupferstein, BV Castro, S Feiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Navigating stairs is a dangerous mobility challenge for people with low vision, who have a
visual impairment that falls short of blindness. Prior research contributed systems for stair …

Unifying terrain awareness for the visually impaired through real-time semantic segmentation

K Yang, K Wang, LM Bergasa, E Romera, W Hu, D Sun… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Navigational assistance aims to help visually-impaired people to ambulate the environment
safely and independently. This topic becomes challenging as it requires detecting a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Indoor navigation systems for visually impaired persons: Map** 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the detection of traversable area with RealSense for the visually impaired

K Yang, K Wang, W Hu, J Bai - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
The introduction of RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensors into the visually impaired people (VIP)-
assisting area has stirred great interest of many researchers. However, the detection range …

A review of terrain detection systems for applications in locomotion assistance

AHA Al-dabbagh, R Ronsse - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Terrain detection systems have been developed for a large body of applications. For
instance, a bionic leg prosthesis would have to adapt its behavior as a function of the terrain …

HIDA: Towards holistic indoor understanding for the visually impaired via semantic instance segmentation with a wearable solid-state LiDAR sensor

H Liu, R Liu, K Yang, J Zhang, K Peng… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Independently exploring unknown spaces or finding objects in an indoor environment is a
daily but challenging task for visually impaired people. However, common 2D assistive …

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 …

Convolutional neural network and sensor fusion for obstacle classification in the context of powered prosthetic leg applications

MA Contreras-Cruz, L Novo-Torres, DJ Villarreal… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Powered prostheses for lower extremities are an advancing technology, with recent
developments reducing their weight while increasing their autonomy and capabilities. One …