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Helping People with Visual Impairments to Avoid Obstacles Using Deep Learning

Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology • 2022
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Authors Mostafa Elgendy, Cecilia Sik Lanyi
Keywords YOLOv3;Tiny-YOLOv3;Deep learning; People with visual impairment; Obstacle detecting; Indoor navigation
Journal Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
Publisher Springer
Volume 216
Issue Not Available
Pages 909-917
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
Doing activities such as navigation is a big problem for people with visual impairment. It makes them inactive and isolates them from communicating with the people around them. A lot of technological interventions have been proposed to solve and overcome these problems. This paper proposes a solution to identify popular objects and avoid obstacles around them. YOLOv3 and Tiny-YOLO3 deep learning models are trained with multiple images containing obstacles that the visually impaired person will face indoors. The results show an average accuracy of 94.6% for object detection while using the YOLOv3 model, and 97.91% recognition accuracy is achieved for using the same model.