Efficient Body-Transfer Wheelchair for Assisting Functionally Impaired燩eople

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Demo: Assisting Visually Impaired People Navigate Indoors

Research in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Computer Vision has recently made great strides in improving indoor localization. Publicly available technology now allows for indoor localization with very small margins of error. In this demo, we show a system that uses state-of the-art technology to assist visually impaired people navigate indoors. Our system takes advantage of spatial repres...

Identifying and assisting the impaired physician.

An impaired physician is one unable to fulfill professional or personal responsibilities because of psychiatric illness, alcoholism, or drug dependency. Current estimates are that approximately 15% of physicians will be impaired at some point in their careers. Although physicians may not have higher rates of impairment compared with other professionals, factors in their background, personality,...

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Obstacle Avoidance System for Assisting Visually Impaired People

The aim of the paper is focused on the design of an obstacle avoidance system for assisting visually impaired people. A disparity map will be generated thanks to the use of a stereo camera carried by the user. Working on this map will allow to develop an algorithm for the obstacle detection in any kind of scenario. The design will be completed with the introduction of audio signal to assist the...