SMART GLASS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Abstract: Generally, visually challenged people tend to have difficulties in traveling and managing many kinds of challenges in their routine life. Mostly, wooden sticks are used to sense barriers and obstacles next to them. As a result, visually impaired people cannot know exactly what kind of challenges they face and must thus rely entirely on lead sticks and training to navigate safely and in the right direction. This project focuses on the development of a guidance system that uses smart glass paired with a sensor to continually capture images from the environment by the user wearable smart glass. The smart glass is equipped with a processor to process the captured images and objects will be detected to inform the user about the results of the image and the user would have a much more comprehensive view of the method. This system allows visually impaired people to measure distance to the obstacle, but it also can inform about what the obstacle is. This smart glass can sense the distance from the obstacle and produce a warning to alert the user in advance. This application is developed to provide such a speech-based interface for the user. Here camera-based text reading framework is used, which helps visually impaired people to read texts in natural scenes, product labels etc. Recognized texts are output to the visually impaired people in speech. Experimental result shows that proposed method offers better performance in text recognition[8].

Keywords: Image Recognition, Smart Glass, Visually Impaired Peoples, Recognize Obstacles, OCR, OpenCV.