For most children in Pakistan, learning Urdu begins with brightly colored books, cheerful classroom activities, and interactive games. But for children who are blind or visually impaired, that joyful learning experience is often out of reach. In Pakistan, more than two million people live with visual impairment, and a large proportion are children. Literacy for…
According to the World Health Organization, over 5% of the global population—an estimated 430 million people—live with hearing or speech impairments. Among them, more than 70 million individuals rely on approximately 300 distinct variants of sign languages as their primary means of communication, as reported by the World Federation of the Deaf. Sign languages are…
In a world increasingly reliant on fast, effective communication, millions of physically disabled individuals face daily challenges in expressing themselves. This gap in communication poses limitations not just for personal interactions but also in educational, professional, and social settings. However, advancements in neurotechnology offer new hope. One of the most exciting developments in this field…
Robust and efficient Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are the crux of attention in the image/video and speech processing community. The purpose of this project is to develop an intelligent object detection system to categorize various objects of interest in the daily life. Hence, provide a smart vision capability to visually impaired people. Mostly, the currently…
According to the World Health Organization around 15% of the world’s population has some form of disability [1] and according to a later report in 2016 about 1 billion people need assistive products. Furthermore, according to a report by the International Council of Nurses in May 2022, there is about shortage of 13 million nursing…
