OCR Oriented Reading System for Blind People

Mobile Reading Assistant for Blind People

This paper describes an embedded device dedicated for blind or visually impaired people. The main aim of this system is to build an automatic text reading assistant using existing hardware associated with innovative algorithms. A personal digital assistant (PDA) was chosen because it combines small-size, computational resources and low cost price. Three key technologies are necessary: text dete...

Portable Camera-Based Product Label Reading For Blind People

We propose a camera-based assistive text reading framework to help blind persons read text labels and product packaging from hand-held objects in their daily life. To isolate the object from untidy backgrounds or other surrounding objects in the camera vision, we initially propose an efficient and effective motion based method to define a region of interest (ROI) in the video by asking the user...

Blind people guidance system

This paper describes a guidance system for blind and partially sighted people with the aim of coping in the known and unknown internal and external spaces without the assistance of human guides. This work represents a significant step forward in the application of innovative technological solutions to increase independence and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. This paper...

Euro Banknote Recognition System for Blind People

This paper presents the development of a portable system with the aim of allowing blind people to detect and recognize Euro banknotes. The developed device is based on a Raspberry Pi electronic instrument and a Raspberry Pi camera, Pi NoIR (No Infrared filter) dotted with additional infrared light, which is embedded into a pair of sunglasses that permit blind and visually impaired people to ind...

Music Reading System for the Blind Computer Science Honours Project