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B-READER (Giving vision to the blind). Team Leads: Rahul Srivastava , Siddharth Parashar Pranav Chaturvedi Mansi Khare. What is B-READER?. B-READER is a project to aid the blind people. BLINDNESS. Problem of access to information. Can't read newspaper, magazines and books.
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B-READER(Giving vision to the blind) Team Leads: RahulSrivastava, SiddharthParashar PranavChaturvedi MansiKhare
What is B-READER? • B-READER is a project to aid the blind people.
BLINDNESS • Problem of access to information. • Can't read newspaper, magazines and books.
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT STATISTICS • Approximately 800 million people worldwide are blind. • The number is steadily increasing due to diabetes, eye diseases, traffic accidents, aging and other causes. • Around 90 percent of blind people live in low-income and under-developed countries.
PAST WORK TO AID BLIND PEOPLE • Braille system developed in 1821. • Optacon (Optical Tactile Converter) was developed in 1970. • Talking books. • Screen readers.
OUR QUEST • Quest for a machine that can open the world of ordinary books to blind readers. • Affordable and easy to use.
SYSTEM DESIGN AND WORK • A prototype would be designed using a controllable webcam ,a laptop PC and headphones. • The text material is kept at proper orientation to the system. • Our system tries to identify the text region in the image. • Then it zooms into the found areas to retake higher resolution images necessary for character recognition.
The images are then processed based on character recognition algorithm . • Then the recognized text is converted to audio which is delivered to the head-phones.
SALIENT FEATURES • The project work is for a social cause. • Low cost project having budget around Rs 2500/- • Consisting of stuffs easily available at home : camera and headphones.
RESEARCH WORK • To develop efficient algorithm for fast and accurate reading. • ECE & CSE branch students required. • Project to be completed till Feb -2014.