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A virtual eye for guiding indoor and outdoor movement

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In this paper, we present a design of a wearable equipment that helps with the perception of the environment for visually impaired people in both indoor and outdoor mobility and navigation. Our prototype can detect and identify traffic situations such as street crossings, traffic lamps, cars, cyclists, other people and obstacles hanging down from above or placed on the ground. The detection takes place in real time based on input data of sensors and cameras, the mobility of the user is aided with audio signals.

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Acknowledgments

The development of this prototype was supported by Magyar Telekom and Gaia Software Ltd. Publishing of this work were funded by the European Union and co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Grant No. TÁMOP-4.2.2.D-15/1/KONV-2015-0006 (MedicNetwork).

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  1. U1 Research Ltd., Gabor Denes 2, Budapest, Hungary

    Bálint Sövény, Gábor Kovács & Zsolt T. Kardkovács

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This article is an extended version of the paper that appeared at CogInfocom 2014.

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Sövény, B., Kovács, G. & Kardkovács, Z.T. Blind guide. J Multimodal User Interfaces 9, 287–297 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-015-0191-6

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