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Article: NEWS: Stereo sight.
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- July 13, 2009
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System uses stereo images to produce acoustic data on objects to aid blind people
A DEVICE that aims to help blind people sense their environment has been developed by researchers as part of the three-year EU-funded CASBliP project.
The system uses stereo images to produce information on the behaviour of moving objects, which is then relayed to a blind person in the form of a sound map.
Project co-ordinator, Guillermo Peris-Fajarnes from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, explained: 'Part of our brain associates sound with spatial awareness. Research undertaken by Laguna University suggests that we soon forget hearing these sounds and ...