Hi! I'm Udayshankar Ravikumar, PCAP and Chief Technology Officer at Urav Advanced Learning Systems Pvt Ltd. This blog is for documentating my open source work.
Android App for Indoor Navigation for The Blind and Visually Impaired
Published on 06 Jul 2023
An Augmented Reality voice interactive assistive indoor navigation application for the visually impaired is described here using ARCore on Android phones. Human–machine interaction mechanism is voice activated with turn-by-turn continuous guidance. The app uses ARCore supported Android smartphones to acquire robust computer vision-based localization. Path creation is done using local anchors, which are then uploaded to the cloud. The ARCore Depth API is used for real-time obstacle detection and the app gives voice warning to the user. A prototype named 3rDi 4 All is implemented with the intended functionality and published on google PlayStore.
