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Shopping plays a significant role in shaping consumer identity and social integration. However, for individuals with visual impairments, navigating in supermarkets and identifying products can be an overwhelming and challenging experience.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Larissa R. de S. Shibata , Ankit A. Ravankar , Jose Victorio Salazar Luces , Yasuhisa Hirata

Speech is the most used communication method between humans and it involves the perception of auditory and visual channels. Automatic speech recognition focuses on interpreting the audio signals, although the video can provide information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Adriana Fernandez-Lopez , Oriol Martinez , Federico M. Sukno

The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Syed Asif Ali , Safeeulah Soomro , Abdul Ghafoor Memon , Mashooque Ahmed

Our study explores how intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) can enable visually impaired people (VIPs) to overcome barriers to inclusion in a digital society to ultimately improve their quality of life. Drawing on the Social Model of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ronaldo Nombakuse , Nils Messerschmidt , Pitso Tsibolane , Muhammad Irfan Khalid

To promote empathy with people that have disabilities, we propose a multi-sensory interactive experience that allows sighted users to embody having a visual impairment whilst using assistive technologies. The experiment involves blindfolded…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Renan Guarese , Emma Pretty , Haytham Fayek , Fabio Zambetta , Ron van Schyndel

Visually impaired people are integral part of the society and it has been a must to provide them with means and system through which they may communicate with the world. In this work, I would like to address how computers can be made useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Jomy John

Background. Hearing aid technology has proven successful in the rehabilitation of hearing loss, but its performance is still limited in difficult everyday conditions characterized by noise and reverberation. Objectives. Introduction to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Volker Hohmann

Tens of millions of people live blind, and their number is ever increasing. Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (SS) encompasses a family of cheap, generic solutions to assist the visually impaired by conveying visual information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-16 Viktor Tóth , Lauri Parkkonen

Visual arts play an important role in cultural life and provide access to social heritage and self-enrichment, but most visual arts are inaccessible to blind people. Researchers have explored different ways to enhance blind people's access…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Franklin Mingzhe Li , Lotus Zhang , Maryam Bandukda , Abigale Stangl , Kristen Shinohara , Leah Findlater , Patrick Carrington

Computer vision based technology is becoming ubiquitous in society. One application area that has seen an increase in computer vision is assistive technologies, specifically for those with visual impairment. Research has shown the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Linda Wang , Alexander Wong

Human perception of surrounding events is strongly dependent on audio cues. Thus, acoustic insulation can seriously impact situational awareness. We present an exploratory study in the domain of assistive computing, eliciting requirements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Leonardo A. Fanzeres , Adriana S. Vivacqua , Luiz W. P. Biscainho

Human lip-reading is a challenging task. It requires not only knowledge of underlying language but also visual clues to predict spoken words. Experts need certain level of experience and understanding of visual expressions learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 M Faisal , Sanaullah Manzoor

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices can assist the blind in sensing the visual environment by translating the visual information into a sound pattern. To improve the translation quality, the task performances of the blind are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Di Hu , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Feiping Nie , Qi Wang

Assistive listening systems (ALSs) dramatically increase speech intelligibility and reduce listening effort. It is very likely that essentially everyone, not only individuals with hearing loss, would benefit from the increased…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Thomas B. Kaufmann , Mehdi Foroogozar , Julie Liss , Visar Berisha

Dyslexia is a neurological learning disability that primarily disrupts one's ability to read, write, and spell, affecting an estimated 15-20% of the global population. This high prevalence underscores the importance of developing effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sansrit Paudel , Subek Acharya , Piriyankan Kirupaharan , Bishal KC , Bipul Thapa

Augmented Reality (AR) technologies hold immense potential for revolutionizing the way individuals with disabilities interact with the world. AR systems can provide real-time assistance and support by overlaying digital information over the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Riju Marwah , Jyotin Singh Thakur , Pranav Tanwar

Sight is essential for humans to navigate their surrounding environment independently. Tasks that are simple for the sighted are often close to impossible for the visually impaired. Throughout the years, many researchers dedicated their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Roya Norouzi Kandalan , Kamesh Namuduri

Finding obstacle-free paths in unknown environments is a big navigation issue for visually impaired people and autonomous robots. Previous works focus on obstacle avoidance, however they do not have a general view of the environment they…

The visually impaired population faces significant challenges in daily activities. While prior works employ vision language models for assistance, most focus on static content and cannot address real-time perception needs in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ziyi Zhang , Zhen Sun , Zongmin Zhang , Zifan Peng , Yuemeng Zhao , Zichun Wang , Zeren Luo , Ruiting Zuo , Xinlei He

We propose a camera-based assistive text reading framework to help blind persons read text labels and product packaging from hand-held objects in their daily life. To isolate the object from untidy backgrounds or other surrounding objects…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Rajkumar N , Anand M. G , Barathiraja N