Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices
has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding …

Indoor navigation has remained an active research area for the last decade. Unlike outdoor
environments, indoor environments have additional challenges, such as weak signals, low …

This article develops a wearable vision-based assistance system to provide situational
awareness for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people in indoor scenarios. The system is …

A review of 35 peer reviewed articles dated from 2016 to February, 2021 was conducted to
identify and describe the types of wayfinding devices that people who are blind, visually …

The human sense of vision is a critical tool for interaction and exploration in the physical
world. However, this valuable faculty can be impaired by a range of causes, such as …

The autonomy, independence, productivity and, in general, quality of life of people with
visual impairments often rely significantly on their ability to use new assistive technologies …

We introduce PERCEPT system, an indoor navigation system for the blind and visually
impaired. PERCEPT will improve the quality of life and health of the visually impaired …

We describe two iOS apps designed to support blind travelers navigating in indoor building
environments. The Wayfinding app provides guidance to a blind user while following a …