Development of a Pedestrian Crossing Navigation System for a Visually Impaired Person Using MY VISION

In this paper, we propose a system for a visually impaired person to cross a pedestrian crossing safely by the employment of the state of a traffic light and the remaining distance to the other side obtained from the analysis of MY VISION images. The traffic light at a pedestrian crossing is detected by a discriminator using HOG (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) features and Random Forest. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by experiments.

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