{"id":15444,"date":"2021-05-25T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=15444"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:40:16","slug":"desarrollan-zapatos-inteligentes-para-ayudar-a-personas-con-discapacidad-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/big-data\/desarrollan-zapatos-inteligentes-para-ayudar-a-personas-con-discapacidad-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent shoes developed to help visually impaired people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers at Technological University of Graz (TU Graz) in Austria have developed an algorithm for a shoe-based assistance system for the visually impaired.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Computer scientists at TU Graz, developed an image recognition system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cameras to warn visually impaired people about obstacles in their path.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tec-Innovation, an Austrian technology company developed a smart shoe for obstacle detection and has recently been cleared as an approved medical device. \u201cUltrasonic sensors on the toe of the shoe detect obstacles up to four meters away. The wearer is then warned by vibration and\/or acoustic signals. This works very well and is already a great help to me personally,\u201d says Markus Raffer, one of the founders of the company.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since 2016, the TU Graz, has been involved as a cooperation partner with the company. In this way, the Rafter Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision has continued to work on adding cameras to the product. \u201cWe have developed state-of-the-art deep-learning algorithms modelled on neural networks that can do two main things after detecting and interpreting the content of the image. They use camera images from the foot perspective to determine an area that is free of obstacles and thus safe to walk on. And they can recognize and distinguish objects\u201d, explains Friedrich Fraundorfer, one of the scientists at TU Graz involved in the project.<\/p>

Through the algorithms entered by machine learning and the development of powerful processors, the smart shoes can operate a mobile shoe system. The Austrian company aims for the prototype to include the camera and processor inside the shoe in a comfortable and sturdy form.<\/p>

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The next improvement to the system seeks to combine the information each shoe collects into a navigation map. \u201cAs it currently stands, only the wearer benefits in each case from the data the shoe collects as he or she walks. It would be much more sustainable if this data could also be made available to other people as a navigation aid,\u201dFraundorfer explained. For this new project they have submitted an application for funding to the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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TU GRAZ<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.tugraz.at\/en\/tu-graz\/services\/news-stories\/tu-graz-news\/singleview\/article\/aus-der-fussperspektive-tu-graz-entwickelt-algorithmus-fuer-schuhbasiertes-blindenassistenzsystem0\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigadores de Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Graz (TU Graz), en Austria, han desarrollado un algoritmo para un sistema de asistencia para personas con discapacidad visual basada en zapatos. Cient\u00edficos inform\u00e1ticos de la TU Graz, desarrollaron un sistema de reconocimiento de im\u00e1genes basado en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y c\u00e1maras, para advertir a personas con discapacidad visual sobre obst\u00e1culos en su camino. Tec-Innovation, una compa\u00f1\u00eda austriaca de tecnolog\u00eda desarroll\u00f3 un zapato inteligente para la detecci\u00f3n de obst\u00e1culos y recientemente se ha autorizado como un dispositivo m\u00e9dico aprobado. “Los sensores ultras\u00f3nicos en la puntera del zapato detectan obst\u00e1culos hasta a cuatro metros de distancia. El usuario es advertido por vibraciones y \/ o se\u00f1ales ac\u00fasticas. Esto funciona muy bien y ya es una gran ayuda para m\u00ed personalmente”, explic\u00f3 Markus Raffer, uno de los fundadores de la compa\u00f1\u00eda. Desde el a\u00f1o 2016, la TU Graz, participa como socio de cooperaci\u00f3n con la compa\u00f1\u00eda. De esta forma el Rafter Instituto de Gr\u00e1ficos por Computadora y Visi\u00f3n ha continuado trabajando en la adici\u00f3n de c\u00e1maras al producto. “Hemos desarrollado algoritmos de aprendizaje profundo de \u00faltima generaci\u00f3n modelados en redes neuronales que pueden hacer dos cosas principales despu\u00e9s de detectar e interpretar el contenido de la imagen. im\u00e1genes desde la perspectiva del pie para determinar un \u00e1rea libre de obst\u00e1culos y, por lo tanto, segura para caminar. Y pueden reconocer y distinguir objetos”, explica Friedrich Fraundorfer, uno de los cient\u00edficos involucrados en el proyecto por parte de la TU Graz. A trav\u00e9s de los algoritmos entrados por aprendizaje autom\u00e1tico y a el desarrollo de potentes procesadores, los zapatos inteligentes pueden operar un zapato sistema m\u00f3vil. La compa\u00f1\u00eda austriaca busca que el prototipo incluya la c\u00e1mara y el procesador dentro del zapato de una forma c\u00f3moda y resistente. Un mapa de navegaci\u00f3n La siguiente mejora del sistema busca combinar la informaci\u00f3n que cada zapato recopila en un mapa de navegaci\u00f3n. \u201cTal como est\u00e1 actualmente, solo el usuario se beneficia en cada caso de los datos que el zapato recopila mientras camina. Ser\u00eda mucho m\u00e1s sostenible si estos datos tambi\u00e9n pudieran estar disponibles para otras personas como una ayuda para la navegaci\u00f3n\u201d, explic\u00f3 Fraundorfer. Para este nuevo proyecto han presentado una solicitud de financiaci\u00f3n a la Agencia Austriaca de Promoci\u00f3n de la Investigaci\u00f3n. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA TU GRAZ https:\/\/www.tugraz.at\/en\/tu-graz\/services\/news-stories\/tu-graz-news\/singleview\/article\/aus-der-fussperspektive-tu-graz-entwickelt-algorithmus-fuer-schuhbasiertes-blindenassistenzsystem0\/<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,3393],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-15444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","category-inteligencia-artificial-y-ciencia","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}