Sound imaging: clever acoustics help blind people see the world (w/ Video)

Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 12:28 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Video from portable cameras is analysed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person as a three-dimensional ‘picture` of sound.

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