%0 Journal Article
%@ 03029743
%A Hassan, E.A.
%A Tang, T.B.
%D 2016
%F scholars:7863
%I Springer Verlag
%J Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
%K Glass; Optical character recognition, Assistive devices; Raspberry pi 2; Single board computers; Text recognition; Visual impairment; Visually impaired; Visually impaired people; Visually impaired students, Character recognition
%P 579-582
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2₈₂
%T Smart glasses for the visually impaired people
%U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/7863/
%V 9759
%X People with visual impairment face various problems in their daily life as the modern assistive devices are often not meeting the consumer requirements in term of price and level of assistance. This paper presents a new design of assistive smart glasses for visually impaired students. The objective is to assist in multiple daily tasks using the advantage of wearable design format. As a proof of concept, this paper only presents one example application, i.e. text recognition technology that can help reading from hardcopy materials. The building cost is kept low by using single board computer raspberry pi 2 as the heart of processing and the raspberry pi 2 camera for image capturing. Experiment results demonstrate that the prototype is working as intended. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
%Z cited By 12; Conference of 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2016 ; Conference Date: 13 July 2016 Through 15 July 2016; Conference Code:178059