COGNITIVE NAVIGATION AND

OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM

FOR BLIND PEOPLE

Larisa Dunai

Guillermo Peris-Fajarnes

Teresa Magal-Royo

Beatriz Defez

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Motivation AEGIS International

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Introduction

Communication localization

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Introduction

¿From

where?

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Objective

Design an Electronic Travel Aid system

(ETA) for object detection and navigation for

blind people

inform the blind user about near and far static

and dynamic objects through acoustical

signals

Stereovision

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State of the art

Detectores de obstáculos Sensores del entorno Navegación

Ultrasonidos Láser y ultrasonidos Identificador de posición

-Lindsay Russell Pathsounder

-Mowat sensor

-Light Probes

-Nottinham Obstacle Detector

-Sonic Torch

-Sonic guide

-KASPA

-Bat K Sonar

-Miniguide

-Trisensor

-Ultracane

-Talking Signs

-Taling Lights

-Sonic Orientation Navigation Aid

-Marco

-Verbal Landmark

-Easy Walker

-Pilot Light

Láser Localización del usuario

-Laser Cane

-Ultracane

-Sonic Pathfinder

-Polaron

-Walk Mate

Video

- SWAN

-The vOICe

-Navigation Assistance for Visually Impaired

-Tyflos device

-EPEL

-System for wearable Audio Navigation

GPS

- Trekker

-Geotact

-Tormes

-GPS Braylle Note

-Personal Guidance System

-Talk & Wayfinder

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System design

INPUTS OUTPUT

environment

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Real-Time Assistance Prototype AEGIS International

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Real-Time Assistance Prototype

Fig.2. Real-Time Assistance Prototype block diagram

Processing Unit

PPM

images

Acoustic

sounds

Stereo

cameras

Headphones

Object detection and Free

space detection

Segmentation algorithm

Depth Map Estimation

Bounding Box Algorithm

Acoustical Module

Object distance

Object speed

Object direction

Object height

Free Space coordinates

Stereo Camera calibration

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Acoustical system

Object

Distance

Direction

Height

Speed

complexity

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Object segmentation using depth

maps, sparse dots and bounding box

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Experimental scenario 15 m

10 m

5 m

12 m

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Experimental trial

video

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