Assisting Blind Using Facial Recognition and Voice Assistance

Abstract

The paper aims at developing a system that would be able to recognize the face and hence play the recorded voice of the recognized face (e.g. Playing name of the person recognized ) using speaker/headset and voice module. The paper shows the usage of an electronic gadget in which a software is programmed, the usage of such kinds of product have increased many folds in the past decade because of the advancement in electronic technology as well as in the field of software development. We have used PCA technology with implementation of eigenfacesto recognize faces of different individuals. MATLAB was predominantly used to apply this algorithm. A voice module connected to Arduino uno plays the recorded voice of the identified individual. This could be of further importance for users who are blind, so that they are informed of the person at their door.