An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people: issues, challenges and opportunities

A Khan, S Khusro - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

L Hakobyan, J Lumsden, D O'Sullivan, H Bartlett - Survey of ophthalmology, 2013 - Elsevier
There are around 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000
people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK. Ongoing advances in …

Cabot: Designing and evaluating an autonomous navigation robot for blind people

J Guerreiro, D Sato, S Asakawa, H Dong… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Navigation robots have the potential to overcome some of the limitations of traditional
navigation aids for blind people, specially in unfamiliar environments. In this paper, we …

Enabling building service robots to guide blind people a participatory design approach

S Azenkot, C Feng, M Cakmak - 2016 11th ACM/IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building service robots-robots that perform various services in buildings-are becoming more
common in large buildings such as hotels and stores. We aim to leverage such robots to …

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 …

Visual and infrared sensor data-based obstacle detection for the visually impaired using the Google project tango tablet development kit and the unity engine

R Jafri, RL Campos, SA Ali, HR Arabnia - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel visual and infrared sensor data-based system to assist visually impaired users in
detecting obstacles in their path while independently navigating indoors is presented. The …

A Smart Infrared Microcontroller‐Based Blind Guidance System

AS Al-Fahoum, HB Al-Hmoud… - Active and Passive …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Blindness is a state of lacking the visual perception due to physiological or neurological
factors. The partial blindness represents the lack of integration in the growth of the optic …

An overview of assistive devices for blind and visually impaired people

M Hu, Y Chen, G Zhai, Z Gao, L Fan - International Journal of …, 2019 - actapress.com
International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2019 AN OVERVIEW OF
ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE Menghan Hu,∗,∗∗ …

Real time multi object detection for blind using single shot multibox detector

A Arora, A Grover, R Chugh, SS Reka - Wireless Personal …, 2019 - Springer
According to world health statistics 285 million out of 7.6 billion population suffers visual
impairment; hence 4 out of 100 people are blind. Absence of vision restricts the mobility of a …

A navigation system for the visually impaired: a fusion of vision and depth sensor

N Kanwal, E Bostanci, K Currie… - Applied bionics and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
For a number of years, scientists have been trying to develop aids that can make visually
impaired people more independent and aware of their surroundings. Computer‐based …