PARTHA: A Visually Impaired Assistance System
Devashish Pradeep Khairnar, Rushikesh Balasaheb Karad, Apurva Kapse, Geetanjali Kale, Prathamesh Jadhav
Abstract
Blindness is very common and unendurable disability among many disabilities. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), there are 285 million visually impaired people [1]. The proposed VI (Visually Impaired) Assistant System is developed to assist the visually impaired people have four modules which are obstacle recognition, obstacle avoidance, indoor and outdoor navigation, and real-time location sharing. The proposed system is a combination of smart glove and smart-phone application which works fine in the low light level also. The smart glove as a part of the proposed solution is used to detect and avoid obstacles and to enable visually impaired people to identify the world around them. The smart-phone-based obstacle and object detection is used to detect various objects in the surrounding. The system also provides seamless indoor navigation implemented using available Wi-Fi access points. The system also provides security to the blind via real-time location sharing in an outdoor environment. Our proposed system is reliable, affordable, practical and feasible.