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AI backpack concept gives audio alerts to blind pedestrians – Mashable
It’s more than a backpack. It’s a visual assistance system.
When Jagadish Mahendran heard about his friend’s daily challenges navigating as a blind person, he immediately thought of his artificial intelligence work.
“For years I had been teaching robots to see things,” he said. Mahendran, a computer vision researcher at the University of Georgias Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found it ironic that he had helped develop machines including a shopping robot that could “see” stocked shelves and a kitchen robot but nothing for people with low or no vision.
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