Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Soft Computing

Abstract

The Visual Awareness Kit (VAK) is an artificial intelligent system that helps the visually impaired people in the society. The proposed system is made with an innovative idea to help the blind to navigate easily through obstacles. A blind man has so many limitations while walking through the street, to identify an object, to avoid obstacles in front of him/her etc.  As mentioned, VAK helps the blind, by identifying the scenes in front of him/her and the distance to the nearest obstacle. The information includes what exactly the obstacle is and the distance between him/her with the obstacle. And this information is communicated to the person through a headset. All this is done using artificial neural networks. The VAK consists of an autofocus camera for live image capturing, A high performance Raspberry pi module trained with convolution neural network for processing and captioning the image input from the camera..

Keywords: Visual Awareness Kit (VAK), Raspberry pi, artificial neural networks.