ANYONE CAN HAVE A VISION
Discover our mission to using technology to assist the visually impaired in education and daily tasks
LATEST NEWS
EyeSight awarded Grant funding of USD 3000 from the IBO
EyeSight Selected for National Science Fair. Read Paper Here
VISION
Making education and the world accessible to the visually impaired.
Today's world is extremely reliant on visual information. Books, street signs, education, and so much more. Visually impaired individuals face difficulties accessing this information (resulting in decreased education and income, according to the WHO). Existing accessibility technologies are prohibitively expensive, require extensive training, and are restricted to specific platforms. Thus, visually impaired individuals need a solution to allow them to access visual information, textbooks, and more, in an intuitive, effective, and affordable manner.​
The Story
It all started with a visit to the Premanjali Foundation, a nonprofit school for the visually impaired. Here, I had an opportunity to interact with the students, and I immediately connected with Charan, a fellow high-schooler who loves technology and math. Our conversation following this eventually delved into olympiads and competitive exams, where I came to know that Charan could not participate in any of them due to his impairment. Moreover, educational resources were scarce at best and extremely difficult to access. Sensitized to this problem, I immediately engaged in some secondary research which confirmed that this is indeed a widespread problem. In order to learn more, I spoke with Ms. Madhu Singhal at the Mitrajyoti foundation, a similar foundation in my locality, where I saw the sorts of available infrastructure (or lack thereof) and their shortcomings. This inspired me to work on Project EyeSight, ultimately culminating in a wearable accessibility tech product much more affordable and simpler to use than the competition, leveraging novel technologies in order to provide better scene analysis. Ultimately, I hope that through all of this, I can help make the world a more accessible place for people like Charan, and help them pursue their passion. I continued this by volunteering at the Premanjali Foundation to teach the students digital literacy (while also learning Kannada from them at the same time).
SOME BRIEF STATISTICS
According to the World Health Organisation, there are approximately 280 million people who are visually impaired, of which 39 million are blind.
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Current solutions, specifically Braille, aren't very effective, as translating and re-printing written content becomes extremely expensive. This severely affects their access to education (almost 10 times as expensive on average for people with an impairment compared to those without)
OUR PRODUCT
Introducing EyeSight, a pair of glasses that uses advanced Computer Vision (an integrated approach with YOLO and GPT 4o models) to read text and identify objects. Version 2 uses WiFi (doesn't need an active connection) with any smartphone (low- or high-end) to provide detailed scene analysis in less than 500ms, along with industry-first directional haptic feedback (all for $20).
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Click here to watch the demo and see the physical prototype in action.
WHY EYESIGHT
Helping people experience the world, through technology
Our solution leverages newer technologies and uses innovative ideas to not only help solve the problem, but make the product available at as low a price as possible - almost 90 times more affordable than existing methods.
THE FUTURE
Next Steps
We are working hard on developing the next version of the prototype, making it affordable and making EyeSight even better, which will include incorporating feedback from pilot testing and user interviews as well. We also plan on organizing community activities to promote innovation and learning among visually impaired students and allow the product to make a stronger impact still.​