Bus route recognition for visually impaired people

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2020-12, Vol.993 (1), p.12048
• Main Authors: Shobana, R, Muthu Selvan, S, Aishwarya, A, Apoorva, N D, Christon, Gavin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Pi cam; Raspberry Pi; Speakers; Visually challenged
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/993/1/012048

Most important part in human's life is our six senses, if we are not having any one of the senses, it will be more difficult to run our day to day life. Here we are going to help the visually impaired peoples to listen where there are and what are they going to do next as a sense in our body. visually impaired usually get information for their next move from others, this may create a inferiority complex to them that they can't be like normal human beings, they are always dependent on others. To make them fell self-confident and to face their obstacles by themselves we have specially customized a smart cap for visually impaired peoples, as they can help them in their day to day life. Vision plays a significant role. Persons without vision can gather information through their hearing skills. The proposed system is an innovative implementation of a smart guidance system for those with vision. The system is a novel and real-time cost-effective technique. The system consists of three modules: voice search module, image processing module and voice processing module. These modules are executed using the keyword function search, which is in voice form, provided by the user. The system combines the concept of optical character recognition and the text to speech synthesizer. It involves extracting text from the image and translating the text into speech; this makes it easier for the user to read the text. From a computer standpoint, extracting text from color images is a difficult task. It can also be used to identify the bus name and bus number at the bus stop or bus stand for the blind and prevents it from being used by an ultrasonic sensor and is communicated to the user by the vibration sensing mechanism.