AUTOMATED OBJECT RECOGNIZATION FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Computer Engineering

Visually challenged are majorly dependent on the Braille language for comprehensive reading of textual documents and their walking sticks they hold everyday for their obstruction identification. Making them virtually visible in an environment and get them workable in a technical organisation this system innovates the technology which provides audio descriptions of their blind surroundings. The design involves human face, object and textual recognition which make vision for visually challenged. The smart kit contains an eye glass provided with camera, an ear phone, a microphone and the system where the processing is carried out. The camera present at the nose head of eye glass captures the intended image of the user as snapshots and transfer to the system where it gets processed and produces the specified audio descriptions as output. The system's database holds a corresponding text for each image which is then converted to audio stream when sounded. In case of any mismatch or no entry of the image in the datasets then the new image is stored as new dataset with the name specified through microphone. This avoids mismatch of that image in the future search.

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