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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110579
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VIPEye: Architecture and Prototype Implementation of Autonomous Mobility for Visually Impaired People

Author 1: Waqas Nawaz
Author 2: Khalid Bashir
Author 3: Kifayat Ullah Khan
Author 4: Muhammad Anas
Author 5: Hafiz Obaid
Author 6: Mughees Nadeem

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 5, 2020.

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Abstract: Comfortable movement of a visually impaired per-son in an unknown environment is non-trivial task due to com-plete or partial short-sightedness, absence of relevant information and unavailability of assistance from a non-impaired person. To fulfill the visual needs of an impaired person towards autonomous navigation, we utilize the concepts of graph mining and computer vision to produce a viable path guidance solution. We present an architectural perspective and a prototype implementation to determine safe & interesting path (SIP) from an arbitrary source to desired destination with intermediate way points, and guide visually impaired person through voice commands on that path. We also identify and highlight various challenging issues, that came up while developing a prototype solution, i.e. VIPEye -An Eye for Visually Impaired People, to this aforementioned problem, in terms of task’s difficulty and availability of required resources or information. Moreover, this study provides candidate research directions for researchers, developers, and practitioners in the development of autonomous mobility services for visually impaired people.

Keywords: Safe and Interesting Path (SIP); Visually Impaired People (VIP); autonomous; mobility; computer vision; path guid-ance; VIPEye prototype; navigation; graph mining

Waqas Nawaz, Khalid Bashir, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Anas, Hafiz Obaid and Mughees Nadeem, “VIPEye: Architecture and Prototype Implementation of Autonomous Mobility for Visually Impaired People” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(5), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110579

@article{Nawaz2020,
title = {VIPEye: Architecture and Prototype Implementation of Autonomous Mobility for Visually Impaired People},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110579},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110579},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {5},
author = {Waqas Nawaz and Khalid Bashir and Kifayat Ullah Khan and Muhammad Anas and Hafiz Obaid and Mughees Nadeem}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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