Blind Reader: An Object Identification Mobile- based Application for the Blind using Augmented Reality Detection

Abstract

Eyes are our window to this world, however not for everyone. Visual impairments can higly disrupt human’s normal activities as simple as recognize all the things around them properly. Technological development of augmented reality is one of the fastest growing technology. Augmented reality, which combines the real world and the virtual world, allows interactivity between both including as an assistive tool such for those who are visually impaired. In this research, we propose a mobile application that identifies objects using smartphone camera by utilizing markerless detection. We used Unity 3D and Vuforia SDK as the place to make the dataset of the marker and running on the Android-based smartphone. The result of this research is an android application that can identify objects and produce a sound output of the product name.