FingerReader .............................

Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Access Information on the go

Short brief introduction about this project.
People with visual impairments face numerous difficulties with existing state-of-the-art technologies including problems with accuracy, mobility, efficiency, cost, and more importantly social exclusion. The design of FingerReader address these challenges as it allows users to simply point at objects to perform a recognition and interpretation task on what the FingerReader sees and hear the result spoken to him or her through a bone conduction headset. We believe FingerReader will make a significant impact on how the visually impaired community can independently access information on the go.

 Lets me introduce than man who Lead this invention


Suranga Nanayakkara  

Suranga Nanayakkara is an Associate Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland. He received his PhD and his Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore. In 2011, he founded the Augmented Human Lab at the University of Auckland to explore ways to create enabling human-computer interfaces as natural extensions of our body, mind and behaviour. Suranga has been recognised with many awards, including young inventor under 35 (TR35 award) in the Asia Pacific region by MIT TechReview, Ten Outstanding Young Professionals by JCI Sri Lanka and INK Fellow 2016.