An Embedded Real-time Object Alert System for Visually Impaired: A Monocular Depth Estimation based Approach through Computer Vision

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Autores principales: Anjom, Jareen, Chowdhury, Rashik Iram, Hasan, Tarbia, Hossain, Md. Ishan Arefin
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Publicado: 2025
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author Anjom, Jareen
Chowdhury, Rashik Iram
Hasan, Tarbia
Hossain, Md. Ishan Arefin
author_facet Anjom, Jareen
Chowdhury, Rashik Iram
Hasan, Tarbia
Hossain, Md. Ishan Arefin
contents Visually impaired people face significant challenges in their day-to-day commutes in the urban cities of Bangladesh due to the vast number of obstructions on every path. With many injuries taking place through road accidents on a daily basis, it is paramount for a system to be developed that can alert the visually impaired of objects at close distance beforehand. To overcome this issue, a novel alert system is proposed in this research to assist the visually impaired in commuting through these busy streets without colliding with any objects. The proposed system can alert the individual to objects that are present at a close distance. It utilizes transfer learning to train models for depth estimation and object detection, and combines both models to introduce a novel system. The models are optimized through the utilization of quantization techniques to make them lightweight and efficient, allowing them to be easily deployed on embedded systems. The proposed solution achieved a lightweight real-time depth estimation and object detection model with an mAP50 of 0.801.
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spellingShingle An Embedded Real-time Object Alert System for Visually Impaired: A Monocular Depth Estimation based Approach through Computer Vision
Anjom, Jareen
Chowdhury, Rashik Iram
Hasan, Tarbia
Hossain, Md. Ishan Arefin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Visually impaired people face significant challenges in their day-to-day commutes in the urban cities of Bangladesh due to the vast number of obstructions on every path. With many injuries taking place through road accidents on a daily basis, it is paramount for a system to be developed that can alert the visually impaired of objects at close distance beforehand. To overcome this issue, a novel alert system is proposed in this research to assist the visually impaired in commuting through these busy streets without colliding with any objects. The proposed system can alert the individual to objects that are present at a close distance. It utilizes transfer learning to train models for depth estimation and object detection, and combines both models to introduce a novel system. The models are optimized through the utilization of quantization techniques to make them lightweight and efficient, allowing them to be easily deployed on embedded systems. The proposed solution achieved a lightweight real-time depth estimation and object detection model with an mAP50 of 0.801.
title An Embedded Real-time Object Alert System for Visually Impaired: A Monocular Depth Estimation based Approach through Computer Vision
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08165