Cameron ElliottGarabed TashianJeff Crispo

In North America, legal blindness is defined as a visual acuity of 20/200

39 million are blind worldwide

33% of blindness is caused by cataract

Takes video and filters out everything but moving objects of reasonable size As the object moves sounds are played to give location, size, and direction of movementWe believe that our idea is innovative since it detects only moving objects

Need to isolate moving object

Use frame subtraction to detect movement

Take into account movement from camera

Remove moving objects that are not of importance

Find centroidUse position of centroid to track object, count number of pixels in objectPlay sound at different intensities according to object location and size

Add more parameters to our project (Tracking more than one object at a time etc.)Hope to turn this into an actual device, not just software simulationHopefully it can one day be used in the real world to help people with visual impairments