Authors :
Manikka Arachchi R.N
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 2 - February
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/gu88
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/34M2ddP
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6360902
Abstract :
Globally the number of people of all ages vision
impaired is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million
are blind by World Health Organization [1] .Due to the
growing of population and ageing, these numbers are
expected to double by the year 2020.For the millions of
blind people living in Sri Lanka, paying for something in
cash face major challenges. A new application, "SMART
Phone Currency Reader for the Vision Impaired
Individual" implement on the android platform as a
solution to this problem by taking advantage of mobile
camera to detect currency value. There is less number of
application have been developed in Sri Lanka for vision
impaired people to recognize currency note, but those
applications are not support for identify new currency
note. SMART currency reader is helpful application with
separate implementation of mobile and server, that simple
and easy to use and also it will recognize new currency
value as quick as possible. The image detected by the inbuilt mobile camera, will analysis in separate server by
applying different types of image processing techniques for
identifying the value of the currency note After that the
value of the currency note stored in the text file and send
to the mobile phone using the KSOAP protocol. The
KSOAP protocol responsible to handle the network
connection. Finally speak the value of the currency out
loud through mobile phone speaker.
Keywords :
SCRVII – A SMART Phone Currency Reader for the Vision Impaired Individual.
Globally the number of people of all ages vision
impaired is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million
are blind by World Health Organization [1] .Due to the
growing of population and ageing, these numbers are
expected to double by the year 2020.For the millions of
blind people living in Sri Lanka, paying for something in
cash face major challenges. A new application, "SMART
Phone Currency Reader for the Vision Impaired
Individual" implement on the android platform as a
solution to this problem by taking advantage of mobile
camera to detect currency value. There is less number of
application have been developed in Sri Lanka for vision
impaired people to recognize currency note, but those
applications are not support for identify new currency
note. SMART currency reader is helpful application with
separate implementation of mobile and server, that simple
and easy to use and also it will recognize new currency
value as quick as possible. The image detected by the inbuilt mobile camera, will analysis in separate server by
applying different types of image processing techniques for
identifying the value of the currency note After that the
value of the currency note stored in the text file and send
to the mobile phone using the KSOAP protocol. The
KSOAP protocol responsible to handle the network
connection. Finally speak the value of the currency out
loud through mobile phone speaker.
Keywords :
SCRVII – A SMART Phone Currency Reader for the Vision Impaired Individual.
