Virtual walking stick for the visually impaired

Abstract- In this work we depict principle highlights of
programming modules created for Android cell phones
that are devoted for the visually impaired clients. This
application will utilize pre-generated map, GPS for self-
localization and vision based calculations for end scene
investigation. The principle module of this task is to
build up the Android application which coordinates a
visually impaired individual in an approach to stay away
from the threat they run over in everyday life through
voice discourse. The module can perceive and coordinate
filtered items to a database of articles. The other module
is proposed to help the visually impaired to distinguish
the different cash divisions, separate them effortlessly
and keep them helpfully for simple access. We close the
paper with a short rundown of the trial of the product
supporting exercises of day by day living of a visually
impaired client.
I.INTRODUCTION
The visually impaired and the outwardly debilitated face
differing sorts of life challenges that typically located
individuals underestimate. To the extent out-entryway
exercises are concerned the visually impaired
demonstrate troubles in protected and autonomous
portability denying them of typical expert and social life.
At that point the issues managing correspondence and
access to data are brought up. Here a huge help is offered
by programming applications for PCs and touch-screen
gadgets outfitted with discourse synthesizers that
empower perusing the web and access to content reports.
At long last, the normal issue experienced by the visually
impaired are the supposed exercises of day by day living.
− High-tech systems, which employ 1-D and 2-D
barcodes, talking labels or radio-frequency identification
devices (RFID).
Both systems, however, require attaching special tags or
Visual signs to the objects. Consequently, they can be
costly, since such systems need to be regularly
maintained to keep them up to date. In this
communication we report a solution aimed at aiding the
visually impaired in colour detection, light direction
detection and recognition of objects. The system is based
on a dedicated image recognition application running on
an Android system smartphone. Image recognition
results are communicated to the blind user by means of
pre-recorded verbal messages. The paper is structured as
follows. In section II we review software applications for
mobile devices that are specially devoted to blind users.
In section III image processing and analysis algorithms
that were applied in the developed applications are
described. Finally, we shortly report results of
preliminary tests of this handy accessibility aid for the
visually impaired users.
II.EXISTING SYSTEM

According to Hersh and Johnson activities in this area

and the corresponding aids can be subdivided into the
following main components:
− Personal care, i.e. labelling systems, health care
monitoring and the use of medicines,
-Safety, e.g. accidents, crossing roads.
− timekeeping, alarm and alerting, e.g. tools for
controlling household appliances, smoke and monoxide
detectors,
− Food preparation and consumption; utensils of special
construction and talking (or sonified) kitchenware (e.g.
liquid level indicators),
− Indoor environmental control and use of appliances,
i.e. accessible systems providing feedback information
about in a format suitable for a blind user,
− Money and finance; high- and low-tech solutions
making shopping and money operations possible for the
blind. In this work we focus our attention on the group of
daily
This work has been partially supported by the Ministry of
Science and Higher Education of Poland research grant
no. NR02-0083-10 in years 2010--2013.living tasks
related to personal care systems, in particular, systems
that enable the visually impaired to identify objects, e.g.
food packs, medicine containers and other items.

Currently available solutions can be grouped into the two

major groups:
− Low-tech labelling systems in which labels are
attached to objects, e.g. with tactile signs or text
messages in Braille.