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Evaluating OCR Performance for Assistive Technology: Effects of Walking Speed, Camera Placement, and Camera Type
Junchi Feng, Nikhil Ballem, Mahya Beheshti +5
Optical character recognition (OCR), a process that converts printed or handwritten text into machine-readable form, is widely used in assistive technology for people with blindnes…
Can Foundation Models Reliably Identify Spatial Hazards? A Case Study on Curb Segmentation
Diwei Sheng, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Mahya Beheshti +2
Curbs serve as vital borders that delineate safe pedestrian zones from potential vehicular traffic hazards. Curbs also represent a primary spatial hazard during dynamic navigation…
UNav: An Infrastructure-Independent Vision-Based Navigation System for People with Blindness and Low vision
Anbang Yang, Mahya Beheshti, Todd E Hudson +5
Vision-based localization approaches now underpin newly emerging navigation pipelines for myriad use cases from robotics to assistive technologies. Compared to sensor-based solutio…