VIP Eye

VIP Eye is an Android application that is developed specially for the visually impaired people who are dependent on others for movement.

Considering sight issues, this application lets the user interact via voice commands. The application guides you about instructions on each page. Maps are provided to retrieve user location, destination, routes, and navigation. Camera along with voice commands traces the obstacles and makes the user capable of moving independently.

How to use?

1. Open VIP Eye.
2. Press volume down and speak your destination.
3. Press volume down again to re-enter destination or volume up to proceed.
4. After multiple routes from your location to destination are found, press volume down to enter a criteria for ideal path.
5. Add a criteria up to five times by pressing volume down, or volume up anytime to choose ideal path.
6. Press volume down to start moving.
7. Press volume up to start detecting obstacles. The application will guide the navigation of your route and inform about obstacles.
8. If you want to stop detecting obstacles, press volume down to terminate.

This work is done under the grant (first Tamayuz program of academic year 1439-1440 AH and research project number is 24/40) received from Deanship of research at Islamic University of Madinah(IUM), Saudi Arabia. We give special thanks to the administration of IUM for their support in every aspect of this work. We would like to thank and Acknowledge the work done by all the stakeholders of this project. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Islamic University of Madinah.

The application is developed by Mughees Nadeem Butt, Muhammad Anas Ashir, and Hafiz Obaid who are the students of FAST-NUCES, Islamabad under the supervision of Dr.Kifayat Ullah Khan, Associate Professor and Director Intelligent Knowledge Mining and Analytics (IKMA) Lab, FAST-NUCES, Islamabad and Dr.Waqas Nawaz, Assistant Professor, University of Madinah (IUM), Saudi Arabia.