Sound Imaging: Clever Acoustics Help Blind People See The World

Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 23:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Video from portable cameras is analyzed 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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