Abstract:The project developed a device to assist blind and visually impaired
users in complying with social distance rules. The main challenge
was how to identify people from other objects and notify the user
accordingly. Equally ambiguous was how to best notify the user that a
person was violating the social distance rules.
The hardware used is a Raspberry Pi running an image classification
algorithm and hooked to a depth camera. The use of prediction labels and
accuracy combined with the distance calculated by the d… Show more
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