AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Reduced Inequality
KEYWORDS
Vision, AI, blind
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Marita Cheng
Alberto Rizzoli
Simon Edwardsson
WEBSITE
http://aipoly.com/
Aipoly
Aipoly helps the blind and visually impaired see the world through their smartphone.
Aipoly Vision is an object and color recognizer that helps the blind, visually impaired, and color blind understand their surroundings. Simply point your phone at the object of interest and press any of the recognition buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn on the artificial intelligence.
The voice is part of a free image-recognition app called Aipoly that’s trying to make it easier for those with vision impairments to recognize their surroundings. To use it, you point the phone’s rear camera at whatever you want it to identify, and Aipoly will speak what it sees (or, at least, what it thinks it sees) and show the object’s name on the phone’s display. Aipoly runs directly on your phone, so it doesn’t need Internet access to work, and it can identify one object after another as you move the phone around, without requiring you to snap a photo of each thing.