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We're developing a better image recognition app designed for the visually impaired. Sign up for the beta! (self.Blind)
submitted 8y ago by Paradigm_shifting
Hi everyone,
We are Alberto Rizzoli and Marita Cheng from Ray Kurzweil's Singularity University. Over the past weeks we've developed $1, an image recognition app that will locate more objects than the current state of the art. It will also understand the relationship between them (eg. Man in wool sweater and grey trousers standing next to red bicycle, versus riding bicycle) better than other apps out there and potentially at a lower cost.
We are collecting signups for our beta which will release in two weeks time. This will also grant free credits once the app is fully published.
But most importantly we are looking for a better understanding of how visual recognition applications are used by the blind community. We've spent the past weeks meeting with the visually impaired every day, but Reddit is always a great source of insight as well :)
So if you have any stories to share we would be very grateful, as well as advice and features you would like to see!
We are Alberto Rizzoli and Marita Cheng from Ray Kurzweil's Singularity University. Over the past weeks we've developed $1, an image recognition app that will locate more objects than the current state of the art. It will also understand the relationship between them (eg. Man in wool sweater and grey trousers standing next to red bicycle, versus riding bicycle) better than other apps out there and potentially at a lower cost.
We are collecting signups for our beta which will release in two weeks time. This will also grant free credits once the app is fully published.
But most importantly we are looking for a better understanding of how visual recognition applications are used by the blind community. We've spent the past weeks meeting with the visually impaired every day, but Reddit is always a great source of insight as well :)
So if you have any stories to share we would be very grateful, as well as advice and features you would like to see!
fastfinge 1 points
Well, seeing as we're on Reddit: will Aipoly except image uploads from a computer? Both on Reddit itself, and many many other social networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc) people post images, infographics, charts and graphs, pictures of news articles, images of signs, pictures of cats, photos of the new baby, etc, etc, etc, without useful captions. The result is many many discussions in my facebook newsfeed and Twitter timeline where I don't have any idea at all what's being discussed. I guess I could take a picture of a computer screen, but it would be useful to upload these images somewhere, and get insight into what the image contains.
Personally, when I'm out and about, I find I just use KNFB to read text. Everything else I can understand well enough by feel that I don't need this kind of service. Plus, of course, data in Canada is massively expensive (downloading a single photo costs me about $0.1), so I could only use this when I had wireless.
Lastly, if this is done in the cloud, what about privacy? KNFB does all the OCR on my device, so it's no problem. I'm not sure how I feel about taking pictures of potentially private information and uploading it to the cloud.
PS: if you're targeting blind screen-reader users, having videos that autoplay on your front page is kind of a bad idea.
Personally, when I'm out and about, I find I just use KNFB to read text. Everything else I can understand well enough by feel that I don't need this kind of service. Plus, of course, data in Canada is massively expensive (downloading a single photo costs me about $0.1), so I could only use this when I had wireless.
Lastly, if this is done in the cloud, what about privacy? KNFB does all the OCR on my device, so it's no problem. I'm not sure how I feel about taking pictures of potentially private information and uploading it to the cloud.
PS: if you're targeting blind screen-reader users, having videos that autoplay on your front page is kind of a bad idea.
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