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Jul 11, 2012

The top projects from this year's dev-fest.

  <h2>Mobile Eye (cont.)</h2>"We came up with this idea to help blind people discover the world using their mobile phone," explained team leader Aakash Polra. "It uses a mixture of artificial intelligence techniques, for example; finding colours, reading text and so on. But it also uses human intelligence to find context-specific information &#8211; the app can rout an image to your family or friend who are available on Facebook, for example and they will answer your queries. So this enables the blind person to go shopping independently or find out about objects on their own just using their mobile phone."  
 

Mobile Eye (cont.)

"We came up with this idea to help blind people discover the world using their mobile phone," explained team leader Aakash Polra. "It uses a mixture of artificial intelligence techniques, for example; finding colours, reading text and so on. But it also uses human intelligence to find context-specific information – the app can rout an image to your family or friend who are available on Facebook, for example and they will answer your queries. So this enables the blind person to go shopping independently or find out about objects on their own just using their mobile phone."

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