Smart vision: Assistive device for the visually impaired community using online computer vision service

Abstract

The visually impaired community face several difficulties in their daily life. With the increase of commercial assistive devices, it can greatly improve their lives, especially for navigation and orientation, which are their main obstacles. Recently, it has been introduced many powerful online image processing services, based on Machine learning and deep learning. Microsoft is one of the main players in online image processing services. In this paper, we discussed a prototype development by utilizing the online image processing service, Microsoft Cognitive Service. We expect to further evaluate the accuracy and the usage analytics in order to understand long term system behavior. © 2019 IEEE.