Visual Assistance System for the Visually Impaired

Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team designed an artificial intelligence-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the world around them. The backpack helps detect common challenges such as traffic signs, hanging obstacles, crosswalks, moving objects and changing elevations, all while running on a low-power, interactive device. The backpack is powered by a Luxonis OAK-D spatial AI camera, Intel Movidius VPU and the Intel OpenVINO toolkit. (Credit: Jagadish K. Mahendran, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia) More: