A senior at the University of Albany developed a develop a vest that provides navigation assistance to the visually impaired using a mix of camera vision, machine learning, and haptic technology that sends vibrations to the user.
To make a haptic vest, Patrick mounted a single camera to the front and installed vibrating motors along specific patterns on the back. He used two different machine learning models — one for object detection and another for depth estimation — running on a Raspberry Pi to process the camera’s video feed.
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