Situation-aware sensor-based wearable computing systems: A reference architecture-driven review

G D'Aniello, R Gravina, M Gaeta… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last fifteen years, there has been a widespread diffusion of wearable sensorized
devices for a plethora of applications in heterogeneous domains. Wearable technology …

Smart assistive system for visually impaired people obstruction avoidance through object detection and classification

U Masud, T Saeed, HM Malaikah, FU Islam… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent progress in innovation is making the life prosper, simpler and easier for common
individual. The World Health Organization (WHO) statistics indicate that a large amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Inertial measurement unit sensors in assistive technologies for visually impaired people, a review

KM Reyes Leiva, M Jaén-Vargas, B Codina… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
A diverse array of assistive technologies have been developed to help Visually Impaired
People (VIP) face many basic daily autonomy challenges. Inertial measurement unit …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning reader for visually impaired

J Ganesan, AT Azar, S Alsenan, NA Kamal, B Qureshi… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in machine and deep learning algorithms and enhanced computational
capabilities have revolutionized healthcare and medicine. Nowadays, research on assistive …

Fast segmentation of point clouds using a convolutional neural network for helping visually impaired people find the closest traversable region

P Tinizaray, W Aguilar, J Lucio - Inteligencia Artificial, 2022 - journal.iberamia.org
In this paper, we introduce an approach for helping visually impaired people to find the
closest-to-user traversable region. The aim of our work is to reduce the computational cost of …

Design of Blind Guiding Robot Based on Speed Adaptation and Visual Recognition

L Zhang, K Jia, J Liu, G Wang, W Huang - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has become urgent to address the traffic challenges faced by this group with the
continuous increase in the number of visually impaired individuals. A blind guiding robot …

A review of sonification solutions in assistive systems for visually impaired people

A Lăpușteanu, A Morar, A Moldoveanu… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Visually impaired people (VIP) find it challenging to understand and gain
awareness of their surroundings. Most activities require the use of the auditory or tactile …

ireader: An intelligent reader system for the visually impaired

G Jothi, AT Azar, B Qureshi… - 2022 7th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For visually impaired persons, it is quite difficult to read printed text. Non-visual forms of
reading materials, such as Braille, are available as Blind Aiding Technology amoung many …

Multi-obstacle aware smart navigation system for visually impaired people in fog connected IoT-cloud environment

A Mueen, M Awedh, B Zafar - Health Informatics Journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Design of smart navigation for visually impaired/blind people is a hindering task. Existing
researchers analyzed it in either indoor or outdoor environment and also it's failed to focus …

Evaluation of Short-Range Depth Sonifications for Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution

L Commère, J Rouat - IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices convert visual information into sound and
can provide valuable assistance for blind people. Recent iterations of these devices rely on …