Leveraging Maps and Computer Vision to Support Indoor Navigation for Blind Travelers

利用地图和计算机视觉为室内提供支持 盲人旅行者的导航 摘要 新冠肺炎让盲人或视障人士出行的风险变得更大 比大流行前更困难。因此，视力障碍的人可能会限制他们的 必要的旅行，如去医生办公室、药房和杂货店购物以及 散步是为了锻炼或休闲。因此，这份COVID补编的目标是建立在 并扩展了母基金正在进行的工作，就是开发一个COVID地图工具 这提供了对地图的完全可访问的、非可视化的访问。该工具将允许视障人士 人们可以在舒适的家中探索地图和预览路线，使他们能够 使用拥挤程度数据，计划他们沿着更安全、更不拥挤的路线出行。此外，该工具 将以完全可访问的形式提供逐个县的COVID发病数据，这将向 他们计划进行更远距离的旅行。因此，这个项目将给视障人士 进行更安全、更独立的旅行所需的工具和信心。

Leveraging Maps and Computer Vision to Support Indoor Navigation for Blind Travelers Abstract COVID-19 has made traveling as a blind or visually impaired person much riskier and more difficult than before the pandemic. As a result, people with visual impairments may limit their essential travel such as trips to the doctor’s office, the pharmacy and grocery shopping and walks for exercise or leisure. Accordingly, the goal of this COVID Supplement, which builds on and expands the work being conducted by the parent grant, is to develop a COVID map tool that provides fully accessible, non-visual access to maps. This tool will allow visually impaired persons to explore maps and preview routes from the comfort of their home, allowing them to plan their travel along safer, less congested routes using crowdedness data. In addition, the tool will present county-by-county COVID incidence data in a fully accessible form, which will inform their travel plans over greater distances. Thus, this project will give visually impaired persons the tools and confidence to undertake safer, more independent travel.