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2014
Background Research

Visual impairment and blindness: Fact Sheet N°282

by World Health Organization (WHO)

Comprehensive fact sheet on global statistics and impact of visual impairment and blindness, providing foundational context for assistive technology development.

2023
Vision-Language Models

BLIP-2: Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining

by Liu, J., Zhang, H., et al.

Introduces a novel approach to vision-language pre-training that leverages frozen image encoders and large language models, demonstrating significant improvements in efficiency and performance.

2023
Vision-Language Models

CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models

by Ding, M., Yang, Z., et al.

Presents an advanced visual language model incorporating trainable visual experts and enhanced attention mechanisms for improved contextual understanding.

2019
Navigation Systems

Smartphone-based navigation aid for visually impaired people using camera and GPS

by Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., & Zhou, H.

Details the development of a smartphone-based navigation system combining camera input and GPS for obstacle detection and route guidance.

2020
Navigation Systems

Wearable obstacle detection system for visually impaired using computer vision and ultrasonic sensors

by Kumar, A., Singh, A., & Jindal, M.

Presents a hybrid approach combining computer vision with ultrasonic sensors for enhanced obstacle detection accuracy.

2021
ATM Accessibility

Computer vision-based ATM access system for visually impaired

by Johnson, M., Patel, V., & Ramakrishna, S.

Explores the application of computer vision techniques for making ATM interfaces accessible to visually impaired users.

2020
ATM Accessibility

Text recognition on ATM screens using OCR for assistive technology

by Park, H., Lee, J., & Kim, S.

Investigates OCR implementation for ATM screen content recognition, addressing challenges in varying display conditions.

2023
Object Detection

YOLOv8 by Ultralytics: Next-Generation Real-Time Object Detection

by Jocher, G., et al.

Presents the latest iteration of YOLO object detection framework, featuring improved accuracy and real-time performance capabilities.

2022
Object Detection

Improving object detection in real environments through domain-specific fine-tuning of YOLO

by Wang, C., Lin, X., et al.

Explores techniques for optimizing YOLO models through domain-specific training for enhanced real-world performance.