Vision for the blind: translating 3D visual concepts into 3D auditory clues

• Grant number: 12/22653-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Agreement: Microsoft Research
• Principal Investigator: Siome Klein Goldenstein
• Grantee: Douglas Eduardo Parra
• Host Institution: Instituto de Computação (IC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Company: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação (IC)
• Associated research grant: 12/50468-6 - Vision for the blind: translating 3D visual concepts into 3D auditory clues, AP.PITE

Abstract

In 2011, World Health Organization estimated 39 million of blind people in the world. For these people, simple daily activities become hard tasks to perform and generally need some equipment to help them, since an ordinary cane up to an advanced technological equipment. The search for new auxiliary devices is constant and with this project we intend elaborate a prototype that, using a depth camera and infrared, will translate visual information to auditory clues. There by, individuals who suffer from some vision deficiency will be able to hear where each object is in its determined spatial position 3D, so they can know its localization, which would facilitate the lives of these people. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PARRA, Douglas Eduardo. Comparison between face recognition algorithms in acessibility context. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação Campinas, SP.