Smart Assistive System for the Visually Impaired

AUTHOR(S)

Mejalin Arno B, Vinothagan J, Arun Kumar R, Gowthami V

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46647/ijetms.2023.v07i04.014

ABSTRACT
Recent advances in innovation have made ordinary people's lives richer, simpler, and easier. Many people suffer from vision impairment, which causes many difficulties in their daily work, according to World Health Organization (WHO) statistics. Our goal is to develop a framework that is unobtrusive, safe, portable, and versatile in order to assist blind people in their daily lives. It intends to develop an effective system for assisting the visually impaired with obstacle detection and scene classification. The Raspberry-Pi 3B+ and a camera module are used in the proposed method. It photographs the scene and then preprocesses the images with Viola-Jones and Yolov5 object detection algorithms. The aforementioned techniques are used to detect people and objects. We also used a sound system that speaks when an object or person is detected. The presented study implements simple computations and detects obstacles with high efficiency. Unlike other frameworks, this framework is lightweight and easy to transport

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How to Cite This Article:
Mejalin Arno B, Vinothagan J, Arun Kumar R, Gowthami V . ijetms;7(4):68-76. DOI: 10.46647/ijetms.2023.v07i04.014