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Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Persons Using Image Processing Techniques – A Survey

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Acquiring information of objects or obstacles ahead and accordingly deciding navigation direction is one of the major problems that visually impaired persons face in their day to day life. However there had been a lot of efforts taken for research towards helping the blinds, yet there is no any concrete, globally accepted and used solution available till date. Vision assistive devices are transferable electronic equipment that can also be hold in hands or easily wear by the users to help them sense the obstacles ahead. This paper tries to identify the currently available assistive technologies for visually impaired persons which use advanced image processing techniques. There is an increasing interest in using those techniques for the use of development of cost effective, easily wearable, hassle free, comfortable to operate and user approachable assistive technique for visually damaged population all over the world. These techniques if combined with some other technical components such as sensors, ultrasonic pulse-echo, infrared light transceivers, GPS systems, acoustic feedback techniques, vibration pads etc. can bring forth a very feature enriched assistive system that can overcome many of the lacunas of previously proposed solutions.

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  1. Department of M.C.A, Govt. Engg. College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

    Suraj R. Pardeshi

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Vikul J. Pawar

  3. Department of CSE, Govt. Engg. College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

    Kailas D. Kharat

  4. Department of CS and IT, Dr. B.A.M. U., Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

    Sachin Chavan

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Pardeshi, S.R., Pawar, V.J., Kharat, K.D., Chavan, S. (2021). Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Persons Using Image Processing Techniques – A Survey. In: Santosh, K.C., Gawali, B. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1380. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0507-9_9

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