A wearable system to assist visually impaired people

New technological advances could have important implications for those affected by disabilities, offering valuable assistance throughout their everyday lives. One key example of this is the guidance that technological tools could provide to the visually impaired (VI), individuals that are either partially or entirely blind. With this in mind, researchers at CloudMinds Technologies Inc., in China, have recently created a new deep learning-powered wearable assistive system for VI individuals. This system, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, consists of a wearable terminal, a powerful processor and a smartphone. The wearable terminal has two key components, an RGBD camera and an earphone.