Natural sense of vision through acoustics and haptics. Sound of Vision: audio and tactile mapping of environmental images.
The aim of the research is to develop a personal electronic system that enables a blind person to orient themselves spatially and move independently (www.soundofvision.net).
The ‘Sound of Vision’ project will design and manufacture a unique electronic system for auditory and tactile ‘imaging’ of the environment to blind people. A non-visual presentation will be built, updated and presented to a blind person continuously and in real time. The system will serve the blind as an electronic assistant and guide (indoors and outdoors) warning of obstacles and describing the environment.
Team: prof. P. K. Strumiłło – kierownik; dr inż. Przemysław Brański; dr inż. M. Bujacz; dr inż. Paweł Poryzała, dr inż. Dariusz Rzeszotarski; dr inż. Piotr Skulimowski; mgr inż. Mateusz Owczarek, inż. Maciej Janeczek; inż. Katarzyna Sprawka
Years: 2015 – 2017
Project type: Horyzont 2020, European project - Horizon 2020; development research
Key publications resulting from the project:
- Mateusz Owczarek , Piotr Skulimowski, Pawel Strumillo, Sound of Vision – 3D Scene Reconstruction from Stereo Vision in an Electronic Travel Aid for the Visually Impaired, In book: Computers Helping People with Special Needs, vol. 9759, pp. 35-42, June 2016, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_6
- Michal Bujacz, Karol Kropidlowski, Gabriel Ivanica, Alin Moldoveanu, Charalampos Saitis, Adam Csapo, György Wersenyi, Simone Spagnol, Omar I. Johannesson, Runar Unnthorsson, Mikolai Rotnicki, Piotr Witek, Sound of Vision - Spatial Audio Output and Sonification Approaches In book: Computers Helping People with Special Needs, vol. 9759, pp. 202-209, June 2016, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_28
- Barański P., Strumiłło P. (2015) Emphatic trials of a teleassistance system for the visually im-paired, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 1640-1651, doi:10.1166/jmihi.2015.1621, (IF=0,503)
- Skulimowski P., Strumiłło P. (2015) Verification of visual odometry algorithms with an OpenGL-based software tool, Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 24, no. 3, 033003, doi:10.1117/1.JEI.24.3.033003, (IF=0,67)
- Owczarek M., Barański P., Strumiłło P., (2015) Pedestrian tracking in video sequences: a particle filtering approach, Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 5, pages 875–881, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2015F158