Technologies of Object Recognition in Space for Visually Impaired People

Eyesight is a person's unique ability to visually notice obstacles in their path. But, unfortunately, this statement does not apply to everyone. Moving from one place to another cause many challenges for visually impaired people. In the period of the rapid development of artificial intelligence systems, as well as the expansion of the capabilities of mobile devices, there is an excellent opportunity to find an affordable and effective solution necessary to solve the problems of blind people. Development of applications that allow detecting objects in the user's environment is one of the priority approaches to this problem. The mobile application can warn the user of obstacles in his path and help him to move from one place to another, as well as giving user the opportunity to avoid unwanted collisions and stumbling. The target devices for deploying such applications are smartphones running on the Android operating system. The reason for this is the breadth and high availability of this devices. Android smartphones of any price segment are almost everywhere. Also, the choice of just such a popular category of devices allows to save time on the development and testing of new special gadgets for navigation, which could serve as an alternative in this solution. Therefore, this article proposes a model that allows to use the smartphone, a popular device accessible to everyone, on which there will be installed software that can help the visually impaired person to detect objects in his environment and help him navigate his way to destination place. The user will be able to receive all the original processed information in sound form, provided in the form of navigation instructions or a short description of the object.