University Texas Austin Students Complete VizWiz Challenge with Microsoft Azure
Applications that utilize machine learning have greatly improved human life in many fields. One such application is to help people who are blind or with low vision learn about their visual surroundings using computer vision. By creating such applications, people with visual impairments can more independently accomplish daily tasks such as recognizing the denomination of currency, whether their socks match, and what flavor of yogurt they select to eat for breakfast. To spur research in developing such applications, a series of VizWiz datasets were created to support several AI challenges. One such dataset challenge includes images taken by visually impaired users and an associated question about each image.
