Nethra Setu

Real Time Smart Bus Number Recognition and Audio System for the Visually Impaired

Requirements

To run this program on a local computer, certain packages must be installed. They have been listed in the requirements.txt file, already existing in the repository.

Just run the following command in the terminal:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Goal of the Project

Help the visually impaired to navigate the bus systems in India.

Work Flow of the Project

1. Training the model with custom dataset. Technology stack used: YoloV8, Google Colab
2. Reading the bus route numbers from the display board. Technology stack used: easyOCR
3. Text-to-Speech implementation to read out the bus route numbers. Technology stack used: gTTS
4. Connecting to a CSV file containing the source and destination of each bus route.

Team Members

Vishnu M R (Team Lead)

Arushi Arunkumar

Kavya B R

Vadlamani Sai Manideep