DigiCane - Computer Vision for making navigation accessible to the blind!

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

DigiCane won second Prize in the prestigious HackNY 2018 Hackathon. It is an Android application that make navigation accessible to the blind and deaf by combining obstacle detection with navigation. Our extensive customer research highlighted two main problems - traffic signal detection, audible information overload with lack of haptic responses. Our app solves these problems by hiding information about obstacles that are not in proximity and including vibrations as responses. We built it Using Single Shot Detection Mobile net computer vision model, android studio and data from Microsoft Coco and Imagenet from Stanford.

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Apr 2018 – Oct 2018

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