VisioCognita: Bridging Senses for Accessibility

VisioCognita: A smart wearable that empowers accessibility through vision and auditory perception.

People with visual impairment face a variety of issues every day, from reading printed material to comprehending their surroundings. Their autonomy is severely hampered by their incapacity to recognise monetary bills, decipher signage, or read writing. Although traditional information access techniques, including assistance from others, do aid to a certain extent, but they also restrict users' independence and privacy.

These obstacles can be lessened, though, by combining picture processing and text-to-audio conversion. Visually impaired people can regain their independence by using technology to recognise printed content such as text on signs or monetary denominations and then translating it into audible speech. Their capacity to traverse their environment is improved by this novel approach, which also gives them the freedom to quickly access important information, promoting inclusion and enhancing their quality of life.

Our proposed solution, VisioCognita, aims to bridge accessibility with technology.

VisioCognita is a smart wearable locket, that leverages the power of OpenCV to empower visually impaired individuals in their day-to-day tasks. Blending in smoothly with any outfit, this lighweight, multipurpose wearable adds convenience and comfort in the lives of the visually impaired.

VisioCognita proposes to utilize OpenCV to perform:

• Text recognition and reading: A good implementation for text-to-speech -useful to read books, identify medicines, and read other printed material without the hassle to use any phone or additional translation software.
• Spatial awareness and navigation: Using special markers, VisioCognita can help the visually impaired to navigate around in their house, as well as outdoors. This not only helps avoiding any small/medium collisions that might occur, but also bring about unaided autonomy in movement of the person up to a certain extent.
• Currency detection: VisioCognita also helps the visually impaired to determine the value of the currency they are holding. All they need to do is hold the denomination in front of them, and they will know how much they are holding, be it dollars or rupees!