The visually impaired suffer greatly while moving from one place to another. They face
challenges in going outdoors and in protecting themselves from moving and stationary …

Indoor navigation has remained an active research area for the last decade. Unlike outdoor
environments, indoor environments have additional challenges, such as weak signals, low …

Navigation assistance is an active research area, where one aim is to foster independent
living for people with vision impairments. Despite the fact that many navigation assistants …

Navigating stairs is a dangerous mobility challenge for people with low vision, who have a
visual impairment that falls short of blindness. Prior research contributed systems for stair …

This work introduces a wearable system to provide situational awareness for blind and
visually impaired people. The system includes a camera, an embedded computer and a …

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

Numerous systems for helping visually impaired people navigate in unfamiliar places have
been proposed. However, few can detect and warn about moving obstacles, provide correct …

Smartphone-based indoor localization systems are increasingly needed in various types of
applications. This article proposes a novel WiFi and vision-integrated fingerprint (Wi-Vi …

Recently, in the attempt to increase blind people autonomy and improve their quality of life, a
lot of effort has been devoted to develop technological travel aids. These systems can …

The ability to precisely locate and navigate a partially impaired or a blind person within a
building is increasingly important for a wide variety of public safety and localization services …