The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there are 285 million visually-impaired
people worldwide. Among these individuals, there are 39 million who are totally blind. There …

Nowadays, the field of mobile robotics has experienced an important evolution and these
robots are more commonly proposed to solve different tasks autonomously. The use of …

Computer vision (CV), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses digital videos or a
sequence of images to recognize content, has been used extensively across industries in …

Visually impaired persons (VIPs) comprise a significant portion of the population and they
are present in all corners of the world. In recent times, the technology proved its presence in …

In recent years, we have assisted with an impressive advance in augmented reality systems
and computer vision algorithms, based on image processing and artificial intelligence …

Assistive devices for visually impaired people (VIP) which support daily traveling and
improve social inclusion are develo** fast. Most of them try to solve the problem of …

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 …

Assistive technology in rehabilitation programs is vital for people with vision impairments
worldwide. The term “blind assistive technology” refers to mobility devices specifically …

Despite significant recent developments, visual assistance systems are still severely
constrained by sensor capabilities, form factor, battery power consumption, computational …

In this paper, we present a system that allows visually impaired people to autonomously
navigate in an unknown indoor and outdoor environment. The system, explicitly designed for …