Research from Literature
Visual impairment and blindness: Fact Sheet N°282
Comprehensive fact sheet on global statistics and impact of visual impairment and blindness, providing foundational context for assistive technology development.
BLIP-2: Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining
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.
CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models
Presents an advanced visual language model incorporating trainable visual experts and enhanced attention mechanisms for improved contextual understanding.
Smartphone-based navigation aid for visually impaired people using camera and GPS
Details the development of a smartphone-based navigation system combining camera input and GPS for obstacle detection and route guidance.
Wearable obstacle detection system for visually impaired using computer vision and ultrasonic sensors
Presents a hybrid approach combining computer vision with ultrasonic sensors for enhanced obstacle detection accuracy.
Computer vision-based ATM access system for visually impaired
Explores the application of computer vision techniques for making ATM interfaces accessible to visually impaired users.
Text recognition on ATM screens using OCR for assistive technology
Investigates OCR implementation for ATM screen content recognition, addressing challenges in varying display conditions.
YOLOv8 by Ultralytics: Next-Generation Real-Time Object Detection
Presents the latest iteration of YOLO object detection framework, featuring improved accuracy and real-time performance capabilities.
Improving object detection in real environments through domain-specific fine-tuning of YOLO
Explores techniques for optimizing YOLO models through domain-specific training for enhanced real-world performance.