Award Winning Project Essay titled “A Deep Learning Automatic Tactile Pavement Detection System for the Visually-Impaired”
This essay was selected as the best essay in the Professional category of COMSTECH-ICYF Essay Competition on Artificial Intelligence.: A Deep Learning Automatic Tactile Pavement Detection System for the Visually-Impaired
The objective of this project is to design an intelligent system that addressing these problems by harnessing the power of sophisticated state-of-the-art image processing and artificial intelligence algorithms, coupled with advanced digital smartphone
technology. This system will be able to detect and classify tactile pavements. Provide navigation information through voice commands to direct the user to the detected tactile pavement. This will potentially give visually impaired individuals the ultimate independence and freedom of movement.