B-READER(Giving vision to the blind)

Team Leads:• Rahul Srivastava, •Siddharth Parashar •Pranav Chaturvedi•Mansi Khare

What is B-READER?

• B-READER is a project to aid the blind people.

BLINDNESS

• Problem of access to information.• Can't read newspaper, magazines and books.

VISUAL IMPAIRMENT STATISTICS

• Approximately 800 million people worldwide are blind.

• The number is steadily increasing due to diabetes, eye diseases, traffic accidents, aging and other causes.

• Around 90 percent of blind people live in low-income and under-developed countries.

PAST WORK TO AID BLIND PEOPLE

• Braille system developed in 1821.• Optacon (Optical Tactile Converter) was

developed in 1970.• Talking books.• Screen readers.

OUR QUEST

• Quest for a machine that can open the world of ordinary books to blind readers.

• Affordable and easy to use.

SYSTEM DESIGN AND WORK

• A prototype would be designed using a controllable webcam ,a laptop PC and headphones.

• The text material is kept at proper orientation to the system.

• Our system tries to identify the text region in the image.

• Then it zooms into the found areas to retake higher resolution images necessary for character recognition.

• The images are then processed based on character recognition algorithm .

• Then the recognized text is converted to audio which is delivered to the head-phones.

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

SPEECH SYNTHESIS

SALIENT FEATURES

• The project work is for a social cause.• Low cost project having budget around Rs

2500/-• Consisting of stuffs easily available at home :

camera and headphones.

RESEARCH WORK

• To develop efficient algorithm for fast and accurate reading.

• ECE & CSE branch students required.• Project to be completed till Feb -2014.