# Smart Guiding Glasses for Visually Impaired People in Indoor Environment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09359 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.09359/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 27 Sep 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [Trans4Trans: Efficient Transformer for Transparent Object Segmentation to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate in the Real World](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.03172/) (2021)
- [Trans4Trans: Efficient Transformer for Transparent Object and Semantic Scene Segmentation in Real-World Navigation Assistance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.09174/) (2021)
- [Emulating Human-like Adaptive Vision for Efficient and Flexible Machine Visual Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.15333/) (2025)
- [HIDA: Towards Holistic Indoor Understanding for the Visually Impaired via Semantic Instance Segmentation with a Wearable Solid-State LiDAR Sensor](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.03180/) (2021)
- [Advanced Audio Aid for Blind People](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00004/) (2022)
- [Floor extraction and door detection for visually impaired guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.17056/) (2024)
- [DISHA: Low-Energy Sparse Transformer at Edge for Outdoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired Individuals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.15864/) (2024)
- [NeoARCADE: Robust Calibration for Distance Estimation to Support Assistive Drones for the Visually Impaired](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.01988/) (2025)
- [A Large Vision-Language Model based Environment Perception System for Visually Impaired People](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.18027/) (2025)
- [MR.NAVI: Mixed-Reality Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05369/) (2025)
- [Semantic Labeling of Human Action For Visually Impaired And Blind People Scene Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.04706/) (2022)
- [Feedback is Needed for Retakes: An Explainable Poor Image Notification Framework for the Visually Impaired](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09427/) (2022)
- [Implementation of a Blind navigation method in outdoors/indoors areas](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.12185/) (2022)
- [A Review of Vision-Based Assistive Systems for Visually Impaired People: Technologies, Applications, and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.14298/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

To overcome the travelling difficulty for the visually impaired group, this paper presents a novel ETA (Electronic Travel Aids)-smart guiding device in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses for giving these people guidance efficiently and safely. Different from existing works, a novel multi sensor fusion based obstacle avoiding algorithm is proposed, which utilizes both the depth sensor and ultrasonic sensor to solve the problems of detecting small obstacles, and transparent obstacles, e.g. the French door. For totally blind people, three kinds of auditory cues were developed to inform the direction where they can go ahead. Whereas for weak sighted people, visual enhancement which leverages the AR (Augment Reality) technique and integrates the traversable direction is adopted. The prototype consisting of a pair of display glasses and several low cost sensors is developed, and its efficiency and accuracy were tested by a number of users. The experimental results show that the smart guiding glasses can effectively improve the user's travelling experience in complicated indoor environment. Thus it serves as a consumer device for helping the visually impaired people to travel safely.