ORCap: Object Recognition Cap (A navigation system for the blind)
Shambhavi Roy, Siddhi Gharge, Reha Jasoriya, Palak Agrawal, Isha Jounjalkar · 2020 IEEE International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON) · 2020
Blindness and visual impairment are pervasive medical conditions. There are few user-friendly devices currently available to assist patients with navigation. Also, these devices are very costly and unaffordable to most of the patients requiring it. Thus, to solve this problem, we have developed Object Recognition Cap (ORCap), employing a computer vision based approach. This is a wearable system having a simple architecture that uses object detection to transform the real-time video captured from the camera module to textual information using the Raspberry Pi board. This device can quickly detect objects of various classes with minimum computation cost. ORCap can help in easy path navigation as it is a real-time system, and it monitors the environment descriptively, providing audio information of objects present and their location with respect to the user. Thus, it offers a safe and secure navigation experience to the user.