Dispositivo de sustitución sensorial para la mejora de la interacción social de personas con discapacidad visual.

Abstract

The inclusion of people with visual disability in daily tasks, has been boosted with some technologic developments, increasing the independency od these individuals. With the development of this proyect, the inclusion has been boosted more, endowing the users with the ability to identify facial expressions in a conversation, giving more con fidence at the moment of giving an answer, having this additional information in con sideration, since the body language represents a whole porcentage in social interaction. The prototype consists in a pair of glasses, with a camera in the front, a headphone in the left side and a tiny computer that is responsible of doing all the required processing. The pictures are took with the camera in appropriate light conditions, analyzed with convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect the position of a face and estimate the facial expresions from the interlocutor. Depending on the detected emotion, the audio feedback is realized with an audio track, allowing the user to know this additional information in his conversation.