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“KIVE – Artificial Intelligence for Traffic Sign Recognition” is considered very promising and has already received recognition in the run-up to the Austrian Council for the Handicapped “Unique” competition.
Braunauer HTL students Kilian Feix, Marco Nagl and Matthias Vöcklinger have set themselves the goal of helping people with disabilities as part of their diploma thesis. His work aims to make it easier for visually impaired people, in particular, to navigate traffic and allow them to cross roads and intersections safely.
Traffic sign application
To do this, the project team programmed an application that is equipped with artificial intelligence. If a disabled person is moving in traffic, the surroundings are filmed with the smartphone camera and the images are sent to the app, which can recognize relevant road signs, traffic lights or protective routes for pedestrians.
If a relevant object is detected, the user of the application is acoustically informed, depending on the configuration through the speaker of the mobile phone or the headphones, the distance from this object. “The application possibilities of our project are very diverse. With extensions, systems can be created that make life easier for many people”, says Kilian Feix, who presented the project with his two colleagues to the “Unique” contest organized by the Austrian Council . for the disabled.
Over the course of the competition, high school graduates received helpful suggestions from people with disabilities and experts so that the project could best adapt to the living environment of people with visual impairments. “From detecting obstacles to determining a priority situation in road traffic, everything is possible with our app,” say Marco Nagl and Matthias Vöcklinger.
By the end of the project, the three HTL Braunau students want to have trained artificial intelligence to such an extent that the detection rate provides reliable information about the environment and the acoustic output and distance measurement work perfectly.
Promising results
The current state is promising. “All three students are totally committed to the project. They work hard and, above all, very successfully,” says supervisor Kurt Kreilinger, who has already supported several promising projects at HTL Braunau. After successful completion, high school graduates will receive a cash award of 2000 euros from the Austrian Council on Disability for their commitment. (sedi)
