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 …

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 …

Internet of things for remote elderly monitoring: a study from user-centered perspective

I Azimi, AM Rahmani, P Liljeberg… - Journal of ambient …, 2017 - Springer
Improvements in life expectancy achieved by technological advancements in the recent
decades have increased the proportion of elderly people. Frailty of old age, susceptibility to …

A survey on assistive technology for visually impaired

K Manjari, M Verma, G Singal - Internet of Things, 2020 - Elsevier
One-Sixth of the world population is suffering from vision impairment, as per WHO's report. In
the past decades, many efforts have been done in developing several devices to provide …

[HTML][HTML] DeepNAVI: A deep learning based smartphone navigation assistant for people with visual impairments

B Kuriakose, R Shrestha, FE Sandnes - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wearable travel aid for environment perception and navigation of visually impaired people

J Bai, Z Liu, Y Lin, Y Li, S Lian, D Liu - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

Computer vision for the visually impaired: the sound of vision system

S Caraiman, A Morar, M Owczarek… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper presents a computer vision based sensory substitution device for the visually
impaired. Its main objective is to provide the users with a 3D representation of the …

" I am the follower, also the boss": Exploring Different Levels of Autonomy and Machine Forms of Guiding Robots for the Visually Impaired

Y Zhang, Z Li, H Guo, L Wang, Q Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Guiding robots, in the form of canes or cars, have recently been explored to assist blind and
low vision (BLV) people. Such robots can provide full or partial autonomy when guiding …

[HTML][HTML] A smartphone-based mobility assistant using depth imaging for visually impaired and blind

AR See, BG Sasing, WD Advincula - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The means of assisting visually impaired and blind (VIB) people when travelling usually
relies on other people. Assistive devices have been developed to assist in blind navigation …