Final Year Project

Embedded Based Reading And Speaking

Support System For Blind And Mute

:Group Members:
Rahul S. Tidke(120070110005)
Aniket F. Mehta(120070110012)
Guided By: Dr. M. S. Holia

Motivation
Blind people, People who cannot speak,
children who cannot understand pronunciation
of words, letters.
We are aiming to provide effective solution to
the problem by providing automatic support
system which is not available till now.

Objective
To process the captured image so as to help the
blind to read text without need for human help.
To help children to learn pronunciation of
words.
To enable the mute people to communicate
through hand gestures.

Proposed Block Diagram

Proposed Flow For Text Extraction

And Detection

Proposed Flow For Hand Gesture

Recognition

Progress
Work done till now....
Studied fundamental image processing techniques
Studied Python programming language
Partially implemented basic text to speech
converter on software
Development of algorithm to extract text from the
image and implemented partially
Detection of extracted text
Hand Gesture Recognition

Captured Image

Noise Reduced Image

Image Binarization

Detection of Text Region

Matched Text

Applications
Automatic Text Reading from image
Hand gesture recognition for
personal use
Hand Gesture recognition for
industrial use
Digitization of image

Future Scope
Support for other languages
Support for digit recognition
Support for diverse hand gesture
recognition
Support for learning pronunciation.

References
Raspberry Pi datasheet (http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC65470/l/raspberry-pi-technical-data-sheet )

Arduino datasheet (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardUno

)
Rasp cam (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11868 )
Image processing toolbox of MATLAB

(www.mathworks.in/products/datasheets/.../image-processing-toolbox.pdf)
Image processing library openCV (docs.opencv.org/)

Digital image processing using MATLAB by Gonzalez (Mc Graw

Hill Education)
Python Documentation (https://www.python.org/doc/)