Automatic Assistance for Blind People in Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Passenger Bus Navigation and Assistance Providing System for Blind People

In this paper we propose a passenger bus navigation system using Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs). This System comprises of three Units: Bus Station Unit, Bus Unit and Blind Unit. The Blind people on the Bus Station are provided with a Blind Unit. The blind speaks his destination on the microphone provided on the Bus Station Unit. When the desired bus stops at the station for the Blind, then via ...

Portable Camera Based Visual Assistance for Blind People

The proposed system is a portable camera based visual assistance prototype for bind people to identify currency notes and also helps them to read printable texts from the handheld objects. To read printable texts, an efficient algorithm that combines an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with Hierarchical optimization is used. In Pattern Recognition OCR every character is localized and separat...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Solutions for Certain Thermal Problems of Microelectronics Ph

Intelligent monitoring for people assistance and safety

This expert systems special issue on ‘Intelligent Monitoring for People Assistance and Safety’ contains the revised and extended best papers dealing with different issues concerning people assistance and safety through intelligent monitoring and activity interpretation, presented at ‘IWINAC 2011: the fourth International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computatio...