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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

A Comprehensive Survey on Emerging Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Persons: Lighting the Path with Visible Light Communications and Artificial Intelligence Innovations.

Alexandru Lavric, Cătălin Beguni, Eduard Zadobrischi, Alin-Mihai Căilean, Sebastian-Andrei Avătămăniței

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alexandru LavricDepartment of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-7734-4854
Cătălin BeguniDepartment of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4267-2919
Eduard ZadobrischiDepartment of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6378-7670
Alin-Mihai CăileanDepartment of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2200-6775
Sebastian-Andrei AvătămănițeiIntegrated Center for Research, Development and Innovation in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnologies and Distributed Systems for Fabrication and Control, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4007-9812

Funding

This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CCCDI - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-4233, within PNCDI III. PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-4233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the context in which severe visual impairment significantly affects human life, this article emphasizes the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Visible Light Communications (VLC) in developing future assistive technologies. Toward this path, the article summarizes the features of some commercial assistance solutions, and debates the characteristics of VLC and AI, emphasizing their compatibility with blind individuals' needs. Additionally, this work highlights the AI potential in the efficient early detection of eye diseases. This article also reviews the existing work oriented toward VLC integration in blind persons' assistive applications, showing the existing progress and emphasizing the high potential associated with VLC use. In the end, this work provides a roadmap toward the development of an integrated AI-based VLC assistance solution for visually impaired people, pointing out the high potential and some of the steps to follow. As far as we know, this is the first comprehensive work which focuses on the integration of AI and VLC technologies in visually impaired persons' assistance domain.

Indexed as

Artificial IntelligencePersons with Visual DisabilitiesSelf-Help DevicesHumansLightLightingSurveys and QuestionnairesAI-assisted VLCblind person assistancevisible light communicationsvisually impaired assistance solutionsvisually impaired personwearable deviceswearable sensors

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PMID39123881
PMCPMC11314945

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