What is the world around you like when you are blind? How difficult is to know what objects are within reach of your hands? Are there any pointed or sharp ones? Is there any flower? Is the cup of coffee steaming still?
What if a portable device can take a look at your surroundings and speak up what objects it can recognize? I hope such a device will help a blind person to easily move around, specially in unknown places.
Attaching a camera to a board with ML inference capabilities (plus the requited battery) I expect to have the power to take pictures and describe aloud what objects are recognized in those pictures. There would also be the ability for some assistant to annotate the pictures if some interesting objects were not detected.
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