2018/11/26 by Kedar Potdar, Potdar, Kedar, Chinmay D. Pai +3
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Currency Recognition and Detection #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.10399
openalex publication_date 2018/11/26 · openalex created_date 2018/11/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper introduces a live object recognition system that serves as a blind aid. Visually impaired people heavily rely on their other senses such as touch and auditory signals for understanding the environment around them. The act of knowing what object is in front of the blind person without touching it (by hand or some other tool) is very difficult. In some cases, the physical contact between the person and object can be dangerous, and even lethal. This project employs a Convolutional Neural Network for recognition of pre-trained objects on the ImageNet dataset. A camera, aligned with the system's predetermined orientation serves as input to the computer system, which has the object recognition Neural Network deployed to carry out real-time object detection. Output from the network can then be parsed to present to the visually impaired person either in the form of audio or Braille text.