We’ve been accepted to present our paper on “Disability-first Dataset Creation: Lessons from Constructing a Dataset for Teachable Object Recognition with Blind and Low Vision Data Collectors” at ACM ASSETS 2021, held virtually 18-22 October. Read a pre-print at https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26424/
ORBIT was featured on BBC Click on the International Day of persons with Disability: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000q5rw/click-a-vision-of-the-future This episode explores the latest developments around accessibility and inclusion in tech. Blind reporter Lucy Edwards investigates how AI helps visually-impaired people identify people and objects with their phones, while Niamh Hughes looks at the strides made in gaming accessibility, through the prism […]
The ORBIT project was featured in a blog post by Microsoft. This article discusses what we are doing to collect relevant data to train machine learning algorithms to tackle personalised object recognition for people with vision disabilities.