I-Can-You (ICU) is a potential hardware device used by the bling to understand it's surroundings. It was presented by Sachin Motwani for his ML project for a Hackathon in a college in India.

1. I Can Unfold
(ICU)
SACHIN MOTWANI
SIMARPREET SINGH BEDI
NIKITA GUPTA

2. What is it?
❖ It’s an ‘Eye’ to the Visually Impaired.
❖It hears you and answers questions related to
surroundings.
❖Eg, what is written? (Text recognition +Text-to-
speech)
Who is in front of me? (Person’s name-based on
pre filled data)
An eye for
a blind will
make
whole
world See!

3. What is it not?
❖Google lens: It processes images
❖Google Glass: Not for the blind
❖No Speech Recognition
❖Alexa or Google Assistant: No Vision
All these could be considered a subsidiary technology for the ICU.

4. Workflow
Speech
to Text
Python
Progra
m for
clicking
picture
and ML
Text to
Speech
Output

5. Speech
to Text
What is written?Who is it? What is it?
Speech
Who
or
What
?
Written
?What
Who
Ye
s
No
Text Detection Model
Person Detection
Model
Object Detection
Model
Address / Vehicle
Detection
Known Person
Detection
Personal Object
Detection
Text to
Speech Text Output
Speech
Camera
takes
images

6. Challenges
⮚Limited number of free API’s
⮚Paid Cloud
⮚Paid sophisticated Speech to Text Software
⮚Hardware cost
⮚Demand?
⮚Accessible Product

7. https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-
text/pricing

8. https://cloud.google.com/vision/prici
ng

9. Challenges
⮚Limited number of free API’s
⮚Paid Cloud
⮚Paid sophisticated Speech to Text Software
⮚Hardware cost
⮚Demand?
⮚Accessible Product

10. Goal
❑An Integrated App
❑Personal (Voice) Assistant as proficient as Google
Home/Alexa (if not more)
❑Reduction of Processing Time

11. Future Prospect
⮚ Not limited to Visually Impaired
⮚Extend to Elderly/ Kids so as to :
▪ Facilitate
▪ Safeguard
▪ Protect