1. Smart wearable navigation device for visually impaired person.
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Kumar, Nitin and Jain, Anuj
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PEOPLE with visual disabilities , *WEARABLE technology , *ASSISTIVE technology , *TWO-dimensional bar codes , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *DATABASES - Abstract
This paper focuses on AI-based assistive technology to help VI person in navigating indoor using QR codes in a very simpler way. We proposed a novel algorithm by which a visually impaired person can not only navigate through the indoor environment but also detect various objects and landmarks in the path. The visually impaired person navigates through the tactile path and by scanning QR codes. The scanned data then forms the database in the comma-separated file(CSV), whenever the VI person regularly moves through the path, the algorithm keeps checking the movement and guide the user by an alert about various objects present in the path, whenever the VI user deviates from the regular path, the system alerts the user through an audio signal. This QR code technique is user friendly, fast, cost-effective, and is accurate than other technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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