NDLI: SoundView: An auditory guidance system based on environment understanding for the visually impaired people

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Min Nie Jie Ren Zhengjun Li Jinhai Niu Yihong Qiu Yisheng Zhu Shanbao Tong
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China (Min Nie; Jie Ren; Zhengjun Li; Jinhai Niu; Yihong Qiu; Yisheng Zhu) \|\| Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, P.R. China (Shanbao Tong)
Abstract	Without visual information, the blind people live in various hardships with shopping, reading, finding objects and etc. Therefore, we developed a portable auditory guide system, called SoundView, for visually impaired people. This prototype system consists of a mini-CCD camera, a digital signal processing unit and an earphone, working with built-in customizable auditory coding algorithms. Employing environment understanding techniques, SoundView processes the images from a camera and detects objects tagged with barcodes. The recognized objects in the environment are then encoded into stereo speech signals for the blind though an earphone. The user would be able to recognize the type, motion state and location of the interested objects with the help of SoundView. Compared with other visual assistant techniques, SoundView is object-oriented and has the advantages of cheap cost, smaller size, light weight, low power consumption and easy customization.
Starting Page	7240
Ending Page	7243
File Size	1038845
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424432967
ISSN	1557170X
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334754
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Prototypes Cameras Digital signal processing Headphones Object detection Biomedical engineering Optical arrays Dogs Acoustic signal detection USA Councils
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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