The Drishti app attempts to help the visually impaired make sense of their surroundings.
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Persistent Systems is a technology services company headquartered in Pune. Every year it hosts a global hackathon called ‘Semicolons’ — which lasts for 24 hours and comprises self-managed teams who ideate and compete against each other to come up with innovative solutions to everyday problems. This year’s theme was Digital Transformation, which saw participation by 45 teams across 11 global centres in 5 countries involving 600+ Persistent employees.
Drishti- a real winner
This year we realised we wanted to focus on and . It is a trending technology. We wanted to use it to do something in the social sector. After discussing with the team, we decided to do something for the visually impaired. One of the major applications of
Artificial Eyes help identify the surroundings
In our app, as soon as the photo is taken, the first level of interpretation is near-instantaneous, in a couple of seconds you get a description of your surroundings. This is not a full blown application, but whatever we could do in 24 hours. So we focused on one user and connected to his Google+ Photos and Facebook accounts to get some contextual information, and then our
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