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Computer Vision based Assistive Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired People

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ICCCNT '16: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2967878.2967923

Published: 06 July 2016 Publication History

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The computer vision based assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired is a developing area. The assistive technology helps the visually impaired by providing them with a greater independence. By enabling them with their day-to-day activities like indoor and outdoor navigation, obstacle detection, locating the doors and lost objects, etc. Even though different assistive technologies are available for the blind, most of them have complex designs which are developed for a specific purpose and are expensive for the commercial production. Rather than depending on a traditional white cane, the blind and visually impaired people can make use of the cheaper assistive device proposed in this paper. The proposed system incorporates several assistance features in a device which will be an asset for them according to their needs.

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