Sensor-based assistive devices for visually-impaired people: Current status, challenges, and future directions

W Elmannai, K Elleithy - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there are 285 million visually-impaired
people worldwide. Among these individuals, there are 39 million who are totally blind. There …

Textile based chemical and physical sensors for healthcare monitoring

A Hatamie, S Angizi, S Kumar… - Journal of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The emergence of textile-based wearable sensors as light-weight portable devices to
monitor desired parameters, has recently gained much interest and has led to the …

CNN-based object recognition and tracking system to assist visually impaired people

F Ashiq, M Asif, MB Ahmad, S Zafar, K Masood… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visually impaired persons (VIPs) comprise a significant portion of the population, and they
are present around the globe and in every part of the world. In recent times, technology …

Wearable assistive devices for visually impaired: A state of the art survey

R Tapu, B Mocanu, T Zaharia - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in October 2017,
estimate that more than 253 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairment (VI) with …

Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision

P Slade, A Tambe, MJ Kochenderfer - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Globally, more than 250 million people have impaired vision and face challenges navigating
outside their homes, affecting their independence, mental health, and physical health …

Computer vision and IoT-based sensors in flood monitoring and mapping: A systematic review

B Arshad, R Ogie, J Barthelemy, B Pradhan… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Floods are amongst the most common and devastating of all natural hazards. The alarming
number of flood-related deaths and financial losses suffered annually across the world call …

A systematic review of urban navigation systems for visually impaired people

FEZ El-Taher, A Taha, J Courtney, S Mckeever - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when
undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive …

Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction

JC Torrado, J Gomez, G Montoro - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we analyze the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to
have a pervasive, feasible and non-stigmatizing form of assistance in their emotional self …

Unifying terrain awareness for the visually impaired through real-time semantic segmentation

K Yang, K Wang, LM Bergasa, E Romera, W Hu, D Sun… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Navigational assistance aims to help visually-impaired people to ambulate the environment
safely and independently. This topic becomes challenging as it requires detecting a wide …

Smartphone-based computer vision travelling aids for blind and visually impaired individuals: A systematic review

A Budrionis, D Plikynas, P Daniušis… - Assistive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Given the growth in the numbers of visually impaired (VI) people in low-income countries,
the development of affordable electronic travel aid (ETA) systems employing devices …