Reconocimiento de Señales y Pictogramas de Sitios Estratégicos de la Ciudad de Riobamba para Personas No Videntes.

Abstract

The development of the Application Guia Rio is a contribution to facilitate the motion of visual impaired people from the visual-impaired people of Chimborazo Province Association within Riobamba city. For which as strategy points such as park, churches, banks and public buildings have been considered which have electronic devices which will emit a sound so that the visual-impaired recognizes the image signaling. To determine the different habits and behaviors of the visual-impaired people, a questionnaire and observation were applied permitting to know that 95% visual-impaired people have mobile devices and, on the other hand determining the feasibility of the application development, as 90% interviewed want a mobile application which will help them to improve their motion within the Guia Rio city. It is an application using augmented reality technology in mobile devices with Android Operative system, permitting that the mobile device camera be capable of recognizing images to, later; emit an audio with the description of the recognized image. The application development was carried out in the Unity 3D platform using for image recognition the kit of Vuforia development 5.1.2 and the application methods were performed in the C# programming language for the image recognition and in the JavaScript programming language to emit the audio. It is concluded that the application is acceptable with the 94.79% of the analyzed population, as it was possible to use it without any difficulty accomplishing the stated requirements. It is recommended to incorporate in the Guia Rio application the development of the recognition of latitude and longitude positions used in the Global Positioning System (GPS), through the use of the development kit Metaio Tracker.