• A Scene-to-Speech Mobile based Application: Multiple Trained Models Approach 

      Karkar A.; Kunhoth J.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      The concept of Scene-to-Speech (STS) is to recognize elements in a captured image or a video clip to speak loudly an informative textual content that describes the scene. The contemporary progression in convolution neural ...
    • CamNav: a computer-vision indoor navigation system 

      Karkar A.G.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Kunhoth J.; Bouridane A. ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      We present CamNav, a vision-based navigation system that provides users with indoor navigation services. CamNav captures images in real time while the user is walking to recognize their current location. It does not require ...
    • Comparative analysis of computer-vision and BLE technology based indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments 

      Kunhoth J.; Karkar A.; Al-Maadeed S.; Al-Attiyah A. ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)
      Background: Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision, ...
    • Indoor positioning and wayfinding systems: a survey 

      Kunhoth J.; Karkar A.G.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Al-Ali A. ( Springer , 2020 , Article)
      Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which effectively increases the popularity of navigation systems ...
    • Smartphone-based food recognition system using multiple deep CNN models 

      Fakhrou A.; Kunhoth J.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      People with blindness or low vision utilize mobile assistive tools for various applications such as object recognition, text recognition, etc. Most of the available applications are focused on recognizing generic objects. ...