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Design and development of an indoor navigation system using denoising autoencoder based convolutional neural network for visually impaired people

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A challenging area of research is the development of a navigation system for visually impaired people in an indoor environment such as a railway station, commercial complex, educational institution, and airport. Identifying the current location of the users can be a difficult task for those with visual impairments. The entire selection of the navigation path depends upon the current location of the user. This work presents a detailed analysis of the recent user positioning techniques and methodologies on the indoor navigation system based on the parameters, such as techniques, cost, the feasibility of implementation, and limitations. This paper presents a denoising auto encoder based on the convolutional neural network (DAECNN) to identify the present location of the users. The proposed approach uses the de-noising autoencoder to reconstruct the noisy image and the convolution neural network (CNN) to classify the users' current position. The proposed method is compared with the existing deep learning approaches such as deep autoencoder, sparse autoencoder, CNN, multilayer perceptron, radial basis function neural network, and the performances are analyzed. The experimental findings indicate that the DAECNN methodology works better than the existing classification approaches.

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This research work is done as part of the research grant from Science for Equity Empowerment and Development Division (SEED), Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi under SEED//TIDE/202/2016/G, dated: 12/01/2018.

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    J. Akilandeswari, A. Naveenkumar & P. Iyyanar

  2. Dept. of BCA, Sona College of Arts and Science, Salem, 636005, Tamil Nadu, India

    G. Jothi

  3. Dept. of ECE, Sona College of Technology, Salem, 636005, Tamil Nadu, India

    R. S. Sabeenian & M. E. Paramasivam

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Akilandeswari, J., Jothi, G., Naveenkumar, A. et al. Design and development of an indoor navigation system using denoising autoencoder based convolutional neural network for visually impaired people. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 3483–3514 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11287-z

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