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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

A Wearable Assistive Device for Blind Pedestrians Using Real-Time Object Detection and Tactile Presentation.

Junjie Shen, Yiwen Chen, Hideyuki Sawada

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junjie ShenDepartment of Pure and Applied Physics, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3257-3340
Yiwen ChenDepartment of Pure and Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Hideyuki SawadaDepartment of Pure and Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3014-6970
Waseda University · JP

Funding

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 20H04214JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) 18H05473JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) 18H05895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nowadays, improving the traffic safety of visually impaired people is a topic of widespread concern. To help avoid the risks and hazards of road traffic in their daily life, we propose a wearable device using object detection techniques and a novel tactile display made from shape-memory alloy (SMA) actuators. After detecting obstacles in real-time, the tactile display attached to a user's hands presents different tactile sensations to show the position of the obstacles. To implement the computation-consuming object detection algorithm in a low-memory mobile device, we introduced a slimming compression method to reduce 90% of the redundant structures of the neural network. We also designed a particular driving circuit board that can efficiently drive the SMA-based tactile displays. In addition, we also conducted several experiments to verify our wearable assistive device's performance. The results of the experiments showed that the subject was able to recognize the left or right position of a stationary obstacle with 96% accuracy and also successfully avoided collisions with moving obstacles by using the wearable assistive device.

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PedestriansPersons with Visual DisabilitiesSelf-Help DevicesWearable Electronic DevicesBlindnessHumansTouchassistance for visually impaired peoplemodel compressionobject detectionSMAtactile displaywearable device

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PMID35746319
PMCPMC9229985
OpenAlexW4283157932

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