NETRAM - AI Driven Technology

Abstract

This paper presents a brief idea of developing an AI driven technology that assists the visually impaired people in carrying out their daily activities with ease. The visually impaired people often face challenges in their day to day life activities and frequently navigate via locating sound sources and sound reflecting objects, a phenomenon known as echolocation. This method of obstacle detection in crowded places does not always come in handy and thus traveling around becomes a cause of concern for them. Therefore, we proposed a device “NETRAM - Your Digital Eye” which is an AI driven technology which assists the blind and elderly in navigation. This device used Azure custom vision AI for training of its model with a precision accuracy of 82.1 % and recall 33 %. This was an attempt to give the visually impaired people a sense of inclusiveness and empower them.