Smart Glass with Multi-Functionalities for Assisting Visually Impaired People

Abstract

Smart glass is a device that is obliging for visually impaired people. It becomes difficult for impaired people to recognize objects in front of them, study, etc. The objective of the work is to design and develop a device that is obliging for visually impaired people. Though, there are many approaches to help them, the major disadvantage of some of the products that are currently present in the market is that they are very costly and bulky. Also, some of the proposed systems either perform only object recognition or only help in reading the text. Almost all proposed systems did not help the visually impaired people to write or to have a hardcopy in the form of braille code which then helps them to read offline. To overcome the disadvantages mentioned above the paper discusses various techniques- Seeing mode, which can recognize 550 classes of objects along with object’s position (Left, Right or Centre). Moreover, in the reading mode, it recognizes the text in front of the person which is then read out loud to the user along with creating a copy of the braille script. Further, in the writing mode, speech is converted to a file containing braille codes.