4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing [ICAC] 2022

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    Guardian - Smart Assistant Tool for Visually Impaired People
    (IEEE, 2022-12-09) Amarasinghe, C.K.; Pinto, R.D.S.P.; Sudusinghe, K.N.
    At present, with the advancement of technology, various devices and solutions have been found to aid the visually impaired community (VI Community). Even with the countless technological breakthroughs, yet they face many problems performing the most basic functions in daily life. Identifying the objects, they use daily, identifying a person, whether it’s someone they know or not, and their emotions, and reading a text information displayed anywhere, without the assistance from another person are the basic issues we deal with and try to resolve using a tool consisting of a pair of spectacles with an inbuilt camera that is integrated with a mobile application. The inbuilt camera will capture the image of a text containing label, an object, or a person which will be then detected, analyzed, and recognized and will be converted to Speech using Google TTS engine and produced through the headphones giving the output to the user. Tesseract OCR, YOLO algorithm, and TensorFlow models have been used for each feature of the tool respectively. This tool will be very beneficial to a blind person as it mitigates them the frustration caused by being incapable of performing daily activities without any assistance from another person.
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    Real-time Smart Navigation System for Visually Impaired People
    (IEEE, 2022-12-09) Sudaraka Keshara, S.R.D.; Weragoda, W.R.J.M.; Chandrasiri, S; Ellankovan, J; Madushan, W.A
    Visual sense plays a primary role in guiding sighted people through an unfamiliar environment and assisting them to reach their destination safely. Visual impairment describes the actual damage that makes it difficult to accomplish visual tasks because it makes it difficult to see clearly. This paper proposes an approach to overcome the challenges faced by visually impaired people with the help of machine learning. This proposed system combines a smart cane and a wearable smart glass. The detection of obstacles and potholes helps to increase the safety and comfort of visually impaired users by detecting and displaying obstacles, and the Smart Walk-lane Navigation assists in navigating through the walk-lanes without letting them enter the main roads and helps to prevent accidents. Road sign detection allows users to follow road signs and cross the roads safely, while face and emotion detection allows users to recognize well-known people and their emotions.