Google Research engineers are working on a project that aims to make it possible for people who are visually impaired to play sports and run outside safely. In partnership with Thomas Panek, the CEO of American guide dog training school Guiding Eyes for the Blind, the project consists of guiding those who are visually impaired by using the camera on their smartphone.
The Guideline project uses machine learning and requires a smartphone, headphones and a guideline painted on the ground in order to enable a user to follow a fixed itinerary.
For this to function, a yellow line has to be pre-painted on the path to follow. The runner is then equipped with a smartphone, placed around…
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