B-READER(Giving vision to the blind)
Team Leads:• Rahul Srivastava, •Siddharth Parashar •Pranav Chaturvedi•Mansi Khare
What is B-READER?
• B-READER is a project to aid the blind people.
BLINDNESS
• Problem of access to information.• Can't read newspaper, magazines and books.
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT STATISTICS
• Approximately 800 million people worldwide are blind.
• The number is steadily increasing due to diabetes, eye diseases, traffic accidents, aging and other causes.
• Around 90 percent of blind people live in low-income and under-developed countries.
PAST WORK TO AID BLIND PEOPLE
• Braille system developed in 1821.• Optacon (Optical Tactile Converter) was
developed in 1970.• Talking books.• Screen readers.
OUR QUEST
• Quest for a machine that can open the world of ordinary books to blind readers.
• Affordable and easy to use.
SYSTEM DESIGN AND WORK
• A prototype would be designed using a controllable webcam ,a laptop PC and headphones.
• The text material is kept at proper orientation to the system.
• Our system tries to identify the text region in the image.
• Then it zooms into the found areas to retake higher resolution images necessary for character recognition.
• The images are then processed based on character recognition algorithm .
• Then the recognized text is converted to audio which is delivered to the head-phones.
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION
SPEECH SYNTHESIS
SALIENT FEATURES
• The project work is for a social cause.• Low cost project having budget around Rs
2500/-• Consisting of stuffs easily available at home :
camera and headphones.
RESEARCH WORK
• To develop efficient algorithm for fast and accurate reading.
• ECE & CSE branch students required.• Project to be completed till Feb -2014.