{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/intelligent-assistant-for-people-with-low","title":"Intelligent Assistant for People with Low Vision Abilities","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2017-11-20","proceeding":"PSIVT 2017 11","authors":["Oleksandr Bogdan","Oleg Yurchenko","Oleksandr Bailo","Francois Rameau","Donggeun Yoo","In So Kweon"],"abstract":"This paper proposes a wearable system for visually impaired people that can be utilized to obtain an extensive feedback about their surrounding environment. Our system consists of a stereo camera and smartglasses, communicating with a smartphone that is used as an intermediary computational device. Furthermore, the system is connected to a server where all the expensive computations are executed. The whole setup is capable of detecting obstacles in the nearest surrounding, recognizing faces and facial expressions, reading texts, providing a generic description and question answering of a particular input image. In addition , we propose a novel depth question answering system to estimate object size as well as objects relative position in an unconstrained environment in near real-time and in a fully automatic way requiring only stereo image pair and voice request as an input. We have conducted a series of experiments to evaluate the feasibility and practicality of the proposed system which shows promising results to assist visually impaired people.","url_abs":"https://bit.ly/2m0GFDp","url_pdf":"https://bit.ly/2mgk6L7","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"intelligent-assistant-for-people-with-low","repo_url":"https://github.com/BAILOOL/Assistant-for-People-with-Low-Vision","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}