Seeing AI 2016 Prototype – A Microsoft research project:

Seeing AI 2016 Prototype – A Microsoft research project – YouTube

Features:

• Speaks text as soon as it appears in front of the camera
• Provides audio guidance to capture a printed page, and recognizes the text, along with its original formatting
• Gives audio beeps to help locate barcodes and then scans them to identify products
• Recognizes friends and describes people around you, including their emotions
• An experimental feature to describe the scene around you
• Identify currency bills when paying with cash
• Generate an audible tone corresponding to the brightness in your surroundings
• Describes the perceived color
• Reads handwritten text

Many of my students are very interested in creating AI concept in the category of accessibility and this App inspired them a lot.