Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired People

Engineering solutions have involved in everyone’s life, most importantly are those aiming to help people with disabilities, however, the modern assistance devices with their current prices are not meeting the requirements of the market. This project is mainly focusing on people with visual impairments and more specifically their education life. It is presenting a concept of smart glasses to provide assistance in multiple tasks represented as modes to be chosen by the user. To prove the concept, this project implements only one mode which is reading using text detection techniques. Taking into consideration the cost, this project is using the single board computer raspberry pi 2 as the heart of the processing and the raspberry pi camera for image capturing and video recording. The video taken is processed using MATLAB, and the description of the live scenes for the text recognition mode or any other future implemented modes will be provided to the user in an audio format. Finally the results of this project show the design of the smart glasses prototype

Advances in Character Recognition

This book presents advances in character recognition, and it consists of 12 chapters that cover wide range of topics on different aspects of character recognition. Hopefully, this book will serve as a reference source for academic research, for professionals working in the character recognition field and for all interested in the subject

Android Applications for Automation Purposes

In recent years, the number of network-enabled smartphones everywhere has been increasing fast. With the rapid expansion of the Internet, people have been trying to reduce manual intervention as much as possible. A variety of sensors are embedded in today’s smartphones which make interfacing with the outside world, easy. The majority of the smartphone users have Android as the operating system. So in the world of smartphone Android has the largest platform as compared to other operating systems. So in this project work Android is used to automate some of the simple day to day manual activities. The thesis represents the design and development of simple android applications which are used to automate simple tasks. All the applications are compatible with Android 2.1 onwards. The designs of the proposed applications are on top of a Web interface which uses RESTful API as the communication protocol between client applications and web service. The applications take much advantage of sensors and techniques pre-installed in Android smartphones. The proposed applications follow optimizations according to the best practices recommended by Google, to increase user experience and reduce power consumption. The first one is PVSys, an Android application which gives the details of equipment required for solar pump installation at user’s backyard or a full solar panel installation at user’s house. The second one is BizCard, which automates the task of storing user’s business cards in digital form and retrieving the contacts when required. The third application, Auto Attendance Manager, automates the task of taking attendance for the teachers and lecturers without the aid of any external device. The Auto Attendance Manager can be integrated easily with the present application of the Institute.Automation of simple things with Android becomes easy. Moreover, a layman can work on Android interface since it is easy to implement and design the layouts. In today’s world when every device is trying to communicate its information to the internet, Android interface with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi can be used for the sam