A Deep Learning Based Assistant for the Visually Impaired

ABSTRACT For visually impaired people to carry out basic tasks like recognizing objects, people in the background are very challenging. The paper presents work done in the field of object detection for visually impaired people. It mainly focuses to detect sharp, dangerous objects like a fork, knife, gas stove, stairs, and microwave using a pertained model. Google's open image dataset v6 is used for training the R- CNN. Keywords: Gas stove, Knife, Stair's detection, Deep learning, Dataset, R-CNN.