Summary of Navip: An Image-centric Indoor Navigation Solution For Visually Impaired People, by Jun Yu et al.
NaVIP: An Image-Centric Indoor Navigation Solution for Visually Impaired People
by Jun Yu, Yifan Zhang, Badrinadh Aila, Vinod Namboodiri
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed NaVIP solution aims to provide visual intelligence for visually impaired individuals (VIPs) through an infrastructure-free and task-scalable image-centric approach. The paper introduces a large-scale phone camera dataset, comprising 300K images from a four-floor research building, with precise 6DoF camera poses, indoor point-of-interest details, and descriptive captions. This dataset serves as the foundation for creating an image-based indoor navigation and exploration solution. The authors benchmark their solution on two aspects: positioning system and exploration support, prioritizing training scalability and real-time inference. The paper’s contribution lies in its potential to assist VIPs in understanding their surroundings, making it a significant step towards inclusivity. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary NaVIP is an innovative way to help visually impaired people navigate indoors without relying on special hardware or infrastructure. The project collects thousands of images from a building using regular phone cameras and labels them with details about what’s in each picture. This helps create a smart navigation system that can be used by anyone, including those who are blind or have low vision. The goal is to make it easier for VIPs to understand their surroundings and move around independently. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
