Design of an interactive system for city bus transport and visually impaired people using wireless communication, smartphone and embedded system

In this study, we propose an assistive system for helping visually impaired people walk outdoors. This assistive system contains an embedded system—Jetson AGX Xavier (manufacture by Nvidia in Santa Clara, CA, USA) and a binocular depth camera—ZED 2 (manufacture by Stereolabs in San Francisco, CA, USA). Based on the CNN neural network FAST-SCNN and the depth map obtained by the ZED 2, the image of the environment in front of the visually impaired user is split into seven equal divisions. A walkability confidence value for each division is computed, and a voice prompt is played to guide the user toward the most appropriate direction such that the visually impaired user can navigate a safe path on the sidewalk, avoid any obstacles, or walk on the crosswalk safely. Furthermore, the obstacle in front of the user is identified by the network YOLOv5s proposed by Jocher, G. et al. Finally, we provided the proposed assistive system to a visually impaired person and experimented around an MRT station in Taiwan. The visually impaired person indicated that the proposed system indeed helped him feel safer when walking outdoors. The experiment also verified that the system could effectively guide the visually impaired person walking safely on the sidewalk and crosswalks.

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Aided System for Visually Impaired People in Bus Transport using Intel Galileo Gen-2: Technical Note

International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems ◽

10.4273/ijvss.9.2.09 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

K. Bommaraju ◽

A. Manikandan ◽

S. Ramalingam

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Technical Note ◽

Blind People ◽

The Troubles ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Intel Galileo ◽

The City ◽

Minimal Effort ◽

Bus Transport

Outwardly impeded individuals experience issues in travel and getting to data about open transportation frameworks. A few frameworks have been created for encouraging outwardly hindered utilizing the city transport. Most frameworks give double way correspondence and require expensive and complex hardware. The objective of this work is to decrease the troubles confronted by outwardly debilitated individuals while boarding in city transports, utilizing an intuitive remote correspondence framework. The framework contained a client module and a transport module to give an immediate coordinated association to diminish the existing challenges with a new many-to-numerous correspondence. When the client triggers the switch, the client module promptly conveys the data. In the event that the transport module gets the coordinated flag, it hums and shows the notice in the display to advise the transport driver that somebody is holding up to blind people on the transport. The intelligent remote correspondence help framework is a legitimate and minimal effort gadget for helping outwardly weakened individuals to utilize the city transports.

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Application of IoT Based Stick for Visually Impaired People in CVIS System

CICTP 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784482933.075 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ammar Muhammad ◽

Qizhou Hu ◽

Muhammad Tayyab ◽

Yikai Wu ◽

Muhammad Ahtsham

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People

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Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations: Proceedings of the Fifth World Professional Forum «Crimea-2019» (Sudak, June 8–16, 2019) ◽

10.33186/978-5-85638-223-4-2020-162-168 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Olga Novikova ◽

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Continuing Education ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Information Space ◽

Advanced Training ◽

Improve Quality ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

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Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Heather Tilley ◽

Jan Eric Olsén

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Visual Disability ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Educational Challenges ◽

Impaired People ◽

The Senses ◽

Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.

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