Direction Detecting of Blind Sidewalk Based on Image Processing Scheme

Abstract:

The blind have so many inconveniences in their lives. In recent years, more and more blind sidewalks are designed and built for them. This is good news for the blind. However, people would consciously or unconsciously leave some stuff on the blind sidewalk. Therefore, the occupation of blind sidewalk is a serious problem gradually. We decided to develop an application on smartphone to help the blind to avoid troubles referred above. Within the camera on the smartphone, the application detects obstacles on the blind sidewalk based on image processing and warns the blind that there are obstacles in front of him. This paper proposed an approach on detecting the direction of blind sidewalk after the blind leave the blind sidewalk to avoid the obstacles. We used several algorithms of image processing and conduct several experiments to exam this system.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 347-350)
• Pages: 3591-3595
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.347-350.3591
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Jian Yu Fu, Ze Gong, Xiao Run Cheng, Ren Mao Cai, Wei Wang
• Keywords: Blind Sidewalk, Direction Detecting, Image Processing

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