SSNCE students represent India in the CSIDC 2005 World Finals
SSNCE students represent India in the CSIDC 2005 World Finals
The IEEE Computer Society conducts an International Design Competition for engineering students every year since 2000, and the sixth being conducted at Washington D. C. in June 2005. The goal of the Sixth Annual Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC 2005) is to advance excellence in education by having student teams design and implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems. The theme of this year's CSIDC is Going Beyond the Boundaries.
Of the nearly 200 teams from 109 colleges from all over the world that participated in the CSIDC 2005, the top ten projects were selected based on their reports by the IEEE Judging Panel. The top ten teams, including one from India, have been invited to compete in the World Finals in Washington, DC, during June 25 – 28, 2005.
The project, “VISION: Engineering Solutions for the Visually Challenged”, submitted by the team of undergraduate Information Technology students, comprising Mayur M., Arjun V. S., and Karthick S., from SSN College of Engineering is the only proposal that has been selected from India for the finals. These students, along with their mentor Dr. V. Seshadri, will be leaving for Washington D. C. to present their work in the finals, for which the travel and local hospitality will be borne by the IEEE Computer Society, and the Visa charges & incidental expenses are met by the SSN college management. The SSN team will vie with the other nine selected teams for the first place that carries a prize money of US $20,000. The second and third placed teams will receive a prize money of $15,000 and $10,000, respectively.
The project envisages assisting visually challenged people by providing a computer assisted tools/system so that they could maneuvre independently in their day-to-day life. This is a conception of our ideology to give back something to the society that has nurtured us. The team has visited several blind schools and the red cross organizations to understand the needs of visually impaired. This project gains significance from the fact that there are 180 million visually handicapped people in the world and 25% of them live in India. Every year 30,000 new blind are added. Hence a serious search for their normal livelyhood is of immediate necessity.
This computer assisted vision for visually handicapped is achieved by the development of three modules namely, the E-Learning system, Interactive Speech Enabled Environment, and SONAR Obstacle Detection System. The E-Learning module can recognize discretely programmed voice commands and can provide study materials in regional languages using a voice feedback system using text-to-speech synthesis or streamed audio. The second module uses wireless technology to turn the environment to respond to the needs of the users. Finally, the collision detection system uses SONAR based technology to help the users to avoid obstacles.
The teams selected for the finals are available at http://www.computer.org/csidc/TopTen.htm. More information about CSIDC can be obtained from its homepage http://www.computer.org/csidc/index.htm
The IEEE Computer Society conducts an International Design Competition for engineering students every year since 2000, and the sixth being conducted at Washington D. C. in June 2005. The goal of the Sixth Annual Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC 2005) is to advance excellence in education by having student teams design and implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems. The theme of this year's CSIDC is Going Beyond the Boundaries.
Of the nearly 200 teams from 109 colleges from all over the world that participated in the CSIDC 2005, the top ten projects were selected based on their reports by the IEEE Judging Panel. The top ten teams, including one from India, have been invited to compete in the World Finals in Washington, DC, during June 25 – 28, 2005.
The project, “VISION: Engineering Solutions for the Visually Challenged”, submitted by the team of undergraduate Information Technology students, comprising Mayur M., Arjun V. S., and Karthick S., from SSN College of Engineering is the only proposal that has been selected from India for the finals. These students, along with their mentor Dr. V. Seshadri, will be leaving for Washington D. C. to present their work in the finals, for which the travel and local hospitality will be borne by the IEEE Computer Society, and the Visa charges & incidental expenses are met by the SSN college management. The SSN team will vie with the other nine selected teams for the first place that carries a prize money of US $20,000. The second and third placed teams will receive a prize money of $15,000 and $10,000, respectively.
The project envisages assisting visually challenged people by providing a computer assisted tools/system so that they could maneuvre independently in their day-to-day life. This is a conception of our ideology to give back something to the society that has nurtured us. The team has visited several blind schools and the red cross organizations to understand the needs of visually impaired. This project gains significance from the fact that there are 180 million visually handicapped people in the world and 25% of them live in India. Every year 30,000 new blind are added. Hence a serious search for their normal livelyhood is of immediate necessity.
This computer assisted vision for visually handicapped is achieved by the development of three modules namely, the E-Learning system, Interactive Speech Enabled Environment, and SONAR Obstacle Detection System. The E-Learning module can recognize discretely programmed voice commands and can provide study materials in regional languages using a voice feedback system using text-to-speech synthesis or streamed audio. The second module uses wireless technology to turn the environment to respond to the needs of the users. Finally, the collision detection system uses SONAR based technology to help the users to avoid obstacles.
The teams selected for the finals are available at http://www.computer.org/csidc/TopTen.htm. More information about CSIDC can be obtained from its homepage http://www.computer.org/csidc/index.htm
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