The development of assisted- visually impaired people robot in the indoor environment based on deep learning
- Resource Type
- Original Paper
- Authors
- Hsieh, Yi-Zeng; Ku, Xiang-Long; Lin, Shih-Syun
- Source
- Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal. 83(3):6555-6578
- Subject
- Deep learning
Convolutional neural network
Indoor positioning
Visually impaired people
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1380-7501
1573-7721
The indoor positioning for visually impaired people has influence on their daily life in unknown indoor environment. This study designs the robot that can assist the blind walking safety and navigate in indoor environment by a single camera. The sense classification is proposed to position the blind in indoor environment by proposed convolutional neural network framework and integrate the semantic segmentation to find the road surface through a depth camera to guide the blind walking. The proposed vision-based sense classification method is compared with the traditional WiFi triangular-positioning method, and the average error of x-y coordinate position result as (9.25,3.65) is better. From the experiment, the designed robot can help the visually impaired people to indoor navigation in unknown indoor environment.