Introduction
Visually Impaired person generally has heightened senses of touch to differentiate between different objects. But sometimes they still have a difficult time differentiating similar products like a bottle of coke vs a bottle of Pepsi. So we created Vision Compass to help them through the mundane day to day tasks and they don’t have to be dependent on others for that.
Vision compass is an android application which operates with minimal user interaction. The UI is minimalistic which does not require much user input.
Vision Compass speaks the label of the product which is placed in front of the smartphone camera using OpenCV and Google Vision API.
The Project was started by me as final year project for my Undergrad. We worked closely with The Blind People’s association Ahmedabad for developing the prototype of the application.
Due to its significance and practical use case, the project was later selected by the central government of India.
The project is now funded by the government under its Startup and Innovation Policy.
Technologies and Tools
- Android
- Android Studio
- Computer Vision
- OpenCV
- Java
- Google Vision API
Acknowledgment
I would like to thank my old colleagues Vishal Shah, Roma Thakkar and Shubham Shah for their contributions in helping me take this project to success.