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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.
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    Sri Lankan Currency Detector for Visually Impaired People
    (Department of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2021-02-24) Abimani, R. M. K. C; Thalagahagedara, T. M. S. S. B; Thilakarathna, H. P. M. U; Wickramasingha, S. D. S. B; Nawinna, D. P; Kasthurirathna, D
    Blind people face more difficulties in day to day life. One pressing problem is they also want to use physical currency (notes and coins) as others. They always have a hard time when trying to recognize the value of a currency, we intend to address this matter by developing a mobile application for blind people. We are going to implement this currency recognition mobile application along with counting and voice command compatibility and also this application is having user-friendly interfaces, therefore easy to negotiate. By using this mobile application blind people can give voice commands to navigate and the start intended to function as a currency recognition or counting as a pleased. We are going to use the user’s mobile phone camera to get input into the app then classify the currency as a note or a coin. After that extract the features of the currency note and coin by using Convolutional Neural Network and predicting the value of the currency note and coin. This mobile application can extract the value of the coins and notes without any issue. Finally, we used Artificial Neural Network for the classification of notes and coins. Processing it and get the real value of the notes. Finally, train the Sinhala and English voice command using the CNN model and get them out as a voice