About Me

My name is Daniel Mooney and I am in Fourth Year of Software Development in South East Technological University. Over the years, I have covered a wide range of computer topics and technologies.

  • Machine Learning
  • Secure App Development
  • AI in the wild
  • Data Visualisation
  • Agile Software Development
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming

4th Year Project

My project is an application for the blind to perform object detection and navigation. The application will be available for Android and desktop platforms. Users can speak their destination, and the application will recognize and provide navigation instructions along with object detection and text recognition features.

Tech Used

These are all the technologies used in the development of the project:

  • Kivy (Used for the GUI)
  • Tensorflow Lite (for object detection)
  • OverPassTurbo (used to get all the attractions user can go to)
  • OpenStreetMap (used to create the map)
  • Plyer (used for text to speech and compass)
  • Pyttsx3 (used for text to speech for Android)
  • OpenCV (used for object detection processing)
  • Pytesseract (used to detect text)

The languages used are:

  • Python
  • Java

Documentation

Design Document
Functional Spec
Project Report

Project in Action