University of California, San Diego

GroZi—A Grocery Shopping Assistant for the Visually Impaired

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LaneHawk from Evolution Robotics.?Detects/recognizes groceries stowed under shopping cart.

Veggie Vision from IBM

RoboCart: Robot-Assisted Navigation of Grocery Stores by the Visually Impaired.?Uses RFID tags and laser range finding. (from USU CSATL)

Shopper robot at U. Chicago.?Finds grocery items in a virtual Grocery World. 

Textual Information Access for the Visually Impaired at Maryland: mentions text reading in grocery store aisles.

RealityFlythrough ubiquitous computing project at UCSD.?Includes some test sequences captured at grocery store (Ralph's)

Mobot: cell phone camera based recognition of album covers, movie posters, beer labels, etc.

Fujitsu U-Scan Shopper: 'intelligent' shopping trolley.

Intel Research Seattle Human Activity Recognition: RFID-based assistive technology for the elderly.

Kurzweil NFB Reader: portable OCR device.

Semacode: 2D barcode reading on a cell phone.

PicturePhoning: volunteer based RSG for sign reading.

TriNetra system from CMU. 

OCR Grid: web based text reader from Tohoku University

Seeing with Sound: Vision Technology for the Totally Blind

Visually Impaired Students Study Math Using Innovative Software: Developed by NASA, MathTrax, transforms graphs and equations in real-time into words, so students have multiple ways to process complex information.