Shopping Sight For Glimpse Dearth

Abstract

The vision is considered as one of the most important feature in living beings for sensing things around them or to navigate from one place to another. The visually impaired persons face serious disability to do simple tasks in their daily life. Many technologies have been developed to facilitate them in ways to detect an obstacle and to navigate from one place to another. Therefore, this paper aims to grease the wheels for the visually impaired people for shopping items in a super market. This paper has developed an application for visually impaired people to identify things that they purchase with their cost of price along with a facility to recognize the currency for monetary transactions. Initially the items to be purchased and its respective cost of price is identified by capturing the image of an item in a camera and the image is processed using object detection methods. Here the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is mainly used to read the labeled names in the items. The cash amount in the currency paper is identified by using SIFT algorithm to effectively extract the prominent features in a currency to differentiate and recognize them. Thereby this application helps the visually impaired people to buy products in a market independently.