Aipoly, the application that describes the world to the visually impaired and blind

Named Aipoly Vision, this new application allows people with blindness and visual impairment to perceive their environment through their smartphone.

A new application developed by a start-up of the Californian incubation center Singularity University is about to revolutionize the lives of visually impaired and visually impaired people. Called Aipoly Vision, it offers people with blindness and visual impairment to "see" through their smartphone.

To do this, the particularly complex program uses visual recognition, artificial intelligence and voice assistance. The whole is made functional with particularly impressive performances.

Scanning the Daily

The principle is to facilitate the daily life of the users thanks to a relatively simple and intuitive system. This makes it possible to obtain a detailed description of an object, simply by pointing the camera of its smartphone.

When a user captures an image with the application, it is automatically downloaded to Aipoly's servers where it is parsed and labeled. A description is then returned and read aloud. According to the project, Aipoly would currently be able to identify thousands of objects at a speed of three per second and over 900 different colors.

She currently speaks seven languages ​​and has the ability to learn new things. Unprecedented performance that already allows us to see many tangible applications.

Better conceive the surrounding world

Aipoly could indeed allow the visually impaired to have a more tangible perception of their environment, especially on the street to better orient themselves. Specifically, the program allows them to know the identity of a building, a vehicle or even read the road signs.

A first version of Aipoly is currently available on the Apple Store. It is expected that this will be improved as updates are made. Eventually, it could even go so far as to recognize scenes of everyday life by relating objects of the environment.

According to recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 285 million people in the world are visually impaired. The Aipoly designers believe that the smartphone could become a privileged instrument for two-thirds of them within the next five years.