Route number recognition ot Public Transport Vehicles via the Bionic Eyeglass

In spite of the impressive advances related to retinal prostheses, there is no imminent promise to make them soon available with a realistic performance to help navigating blind persons. In our new project, we are designing a bionic eyeglass that is providing a wearable TeraOps visual computing power to guide visually impaired people in their daily life. Detection and recognition of signs and displays in real, noisy environments is a key element in many functions of the bionic eyeglass. This paper describes spatial-temporal analogic cellular algorithms used for localizing signs and displays, and recognition of numbers they contain