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Blind navigation is an accessibility application that enables blind to use an android Smartphone in an easy way for indoor navigation with instructions in audio form. We have proposed a prototype which is an indoor navigation application…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Affan Idrees , Zahid Iqbal , Maria Ishfaq

Access to textual and visual information for visually impaired persons becomes very difficult with screen readers which are not adapted to different websites.This paper analyses the use of different technologies for access digital content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Katerine Romeo , Edwige Pissaloux , Frédéric Serin

According to the World Health Organization(WHO), it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some forms of vision impairment globally, of whom 36 million are blind. Due to their disability, engaging these minority into…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jieshan Chen , Chunyang Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Guoqiang Li , Jinshui Wang

Searching for objects in unfamiliar scenarios is a challenging task for blind people. It involves specifying the target object, detecting it, and then gathering detailed information according to the user's intent. However, existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ruiping Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Angela Schön , Karin Müller , Junwei Zheng , Kailun Yang , Anhong Guo , Kathrin Gerling , Rainer Stiefelhagen

User Experience (UX) evaluation methods that are commonly used with hearing users may not be functional or effective for Deaf users. This is because these methods are primarily designed for users with hearing abilities, which can create…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 A. E. Fuentes-Cortázar , A. Rivera-Hernández , J. R. Rojano-Cáceres

Today, many of the aid systems deployed for visually impaired people are mostly made for a single purpose. Be it navigation, object detection, or distance perceiving. Also, most of the deployed aid systems use indoor navigation which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Shashank Kotyan , Nishant Kumar , Pankaj Kumar Sahu , Venkanna Udutalapally

In this paper, we address an issue that the visually impaired commonly face while crossing intersections and propose a solution that takes form as a mobile application. The application utilizes a deep learning convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Samuel Yu , Heon Lee , Jung Hoon Kim

Systems that augment sensory abilities are increasingly employing AI and machine learning (ML) approaches, with applications ranging from object recognition and scene description tools for blind users to sound awareness tools for d/Deaf…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Leah Findlater , Steven Goodman , Yuhang Zhao , Shiri Azenkot , Margot Hanley

People with blindness and low vision (pBLV) encounter substantial challenges when it comes to comprehensive scene recognition and precise object identification in unfamiliar environments. Additionally, due to the vision loss, pBLV have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yu Hao , Fan Yang , Hao Huang , Shuaihang Yuan , Sundeep Rangan , John-Ross Rizzo , Yao Wang , Yi Fang

Online shopping has become a valuable modern convenience, but blind or low vision (BLV) users still face significant challenges using it, because of: 1) inadequate image descriptions and 2) the inability to filter large amounts of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ruolin Wang , Zixuan Chen , Mingrui "Ray" Zhang , Zhaoheng Li , Zhixiu Liu , Zihan Dang , Chun Yu , Xiang "Anthony" Chen

Visual cues such as structure, emphasis, and icons play an important role in efficient information foraging by sighted individuals and make for a pleasurable reading experience. Blind, low-vision and other print-disabled individuals miss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Peya Mowar , Tanuja Ganu , Saikat Guha

In the last years several solutions were proposed to support people with visual impairments or blindness during road crossing. These solutions focus on computer vision techniques for recognizing pedestrian crosswalks and computing their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Sergio Mascetti , Lorenzo Picinali , Andrea Gerino , Dragan Ahmetovic , Cristian Bernareggi

Vision-aided wireless communication is attracting increasing interest and finding new use cases in various wireless communication applications. These vision-aided communication frameworks leverage visual data captured, for example, by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The main backbone of our Artificial Eye model is the Raspberry pi3 which is connected to the webcam ,ultrasonic proximity sensor, speaker and we also run all our software models i.e object detection, Optical Character recognition, google…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Abhinav Benagi , Dhanyatha Narayan , Charith Rage , A Sushmitha

Sensor visibility is crucial for safety-critical applications in automotive, robotics, smart infrastructure and others: In addition to object detection and occupancy mapping, visibility describes where a sensor can potentially measure or is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Joachim Börger , Marc Patrick Zapf , Marat Kopytjuk , Xinrun Li 2 , Claudius Gläser

Current technological advances open up new opportunities for bringing human-machine interaction to a new level of human-centered cooperation. In this context, a key issue is the semantic understanding of the environment in order to enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Thorsten Hempel , Marc-André Fiedler , Aly Khalifa , Ayoub Al-Hamadi , Laslo Dinges

This paper describes a global framework that enables contactless human machine interaction using computer vision and machine learning techniques. The main originality of our framework is that only a very simple image acquisition device, as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Frederic Magoules , Qinmeng Zou

Data analysis in space sciences has been performed exclusively visually for years, despite the fact that the largest amount of data belongs to non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This, on the one hand, limits the study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Johanna Casado , Beatriz García

Efficient and accurate object detection is an important topic in the development of computer vision systems. With the advent of deep learning techniques, the accuracy of object detection has increased significantly. The project aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Md Pranto , Omar Faruk

Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness worldwide and is one of many limitations to independent driving among old adults. Highly autonomous vehicles present a prospective solution for those who are no longer capable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Lashawnda Bynum , Jay Parker , Kristy Lee , Nia Nitschke , Melanie LaFlam , Jennifer Marcussen , Jana Taleb , Aleyna Dogan , Lisa J. Molnar , Feng Zhou