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. 2020 Aug 27;22(9):941. doi: 10.3390/e22090941

Table 6.

Comparison with state-of-the-art methods.

Method Components Dataset Result Coverage Area Connection Cost
Hoang et al. [41] Mobile Kinect, laptop Electrode matrix, headphone and RF transmitter Local dataset Detect obstacle and generate audio warning Indoor Offline High
Bai et al. [8] Depth camera, glasses, CPU, headphone and ultrasonic sensor Not included Obstacle Recognition and audio output Indoor Offline High
Yang et al. [42] Depth Camera on Smart glass, Laptop, and headphone ADE20, PASCAL, and COCO Obstacle Recognition and generate clarinet sound as warning Indoor, Outdoor Internet Required High
Mancini et al. [43] Camera, PCB, and vibration motor Not included Obstacle recognition and vibration feedback for the direction Outdoor Offline Low
Bauer et al. [44] Camera, smartwatch, and smartphone PASCAL VOC Dataset Object detection with direction of object into audio output Outdoor Internet Required High
Patil et al. [45] Sensors, vibration motors, No Dataset Obstacle detection with audio output Indoor, Outdoor Offline Low
Eckert et al. [46] RGB-D camera and IMU sensors PASCAL VOC dataset Object detection with audio output Indoor Internet Required High
Parikh et al. [47] Smartphone, server, and headphone Local dataset of 11 objects Object detection with audio output Outdoor Internet Required High
AL-Madani et al. [48] BLE fingerprint, fuzzy logic Not included Localization of the person in the building Indoor Offline
(Choice Wi-Fi or BLE)
Low
Proposed Method RGB Camera, Distance Sensor, DSP processor, Headphone Local dataset of highly relevant objects for VIP Object detection, Count of objects, obstacle warnings, read text, and works in different modes Indoor, Outdoor Offline Low