According to the World Health Organization, 2.2 billion people around the world live with near or distant vision impairment. Over a quarter of this planet's population sees the world differently from how it should be, and this profoundly harms how people learn, walk, and work. Our team personally knows the impacts of vision impairment - three of our four members need to use contacts or glasses in daily life. Therefore, born out of our mutual interest in benefitting society, we developed DAVE - Digital Assistant for Vision Enhancement - to ease the burden of a vision-impaired lifestyle.
- Clone the repository to your computer
- Find a webcam with a microphone
- Attach this webcam to a pair of glasses
- Run the program:
python3 DAVE.py - Say "DAVE" to summon the assistant
- Ask to describe what it sees or ask a question about the image
- Listen to DAVE's response
- Shamar Samuels:
- Role:
- Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Affiliation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Arya Shahvar:
- Role: ML
- Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Affiliation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Zachary Fernandes:
- Role: Machine Learning/Backend Developer, Prompt Engineering, ASR, Text-to-Speech, Model Research
- Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Afiliation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Drew Bhavsar:
- Role: Frontend Developer
- Education: Hudson Valley Community College, University at Albany (SUNY)
- Affiliation: Mass General Brigham