iCu□e — An IoT application for Indian currency recognition in vernacular languages for visually challenged people

Abstract

God created this universe along with all living and non-living beings. Human is one of the best among his creations and in Human beings, e yes are the gift of God to see His creations. As of now, humans are considered as the only developed creatures among His creations and have developed themselves from Stone Age to the Computing Era. As the human civilizations grew up, the transactions have moved from barter system to currency. Every country has its own currency in terms of coins and paper notes. Each of the currency of Individual County has its unique features, colors, denominations and international value. We, all, having been given two beautiful eyes could recognize the currency easily. Yet, many a times, it is not as easy as it seems to recognize a currency. The denomination can easily be recognized for a currency but it becomes difficult to identify a counterfeit currency from the real one. Especially for the blind people, it is a herculean task like finding a needle from haystack. The main motive of the work is to develop a robust image processing algorithm to identify the Indian currency, both paper-based and coins, in Indian Regional languages and convert it into a working prototype in order to provide a tool to the blind people for the same purpose.