A new application from Google helps the blind to run without anyone's help

 In collaboration with non-profit organization Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Google has piloted an artificial intelligence system called Project Guideline, which is designed to help blind and visually impaired people independently run races using only a smartphone. Using an app that tracks the virtual race via GPS and a Google-designed package that provides voice prompts to pre-indicate the location of the colored line.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, a total of 1.02 million people in the United States were blind and approximately 3.22 million people had low vision. Techniques exist to help blind and visually impaired people navigate challenging everyday environments, but those wishing to run should rely on either an animal to guide them or a human guide attached to them.

This Google's Guideline app works offline and only requires directions drawn on a pedestrian path. Users wear an Android phone around the waist with a belt; The Guideline app runs a machine learning model that searches for and identifies the drawn line, then the app approaches the user's position and provides audio feedback via connected headphones to help keep them on the guidelines. If the user is to the left of the line, he will hear a sound in his left ear that increases in volume and contrast, and if the user moves to the right of the line, the same will happen in his right ear.

The new Google application is still in its early stages, and the idea began last year after a blind runner asked them to design an application that would allow him to run individually without the need to use any human aide or any animal, during the hackathon event, an event that includes graphic designers and programmers Where they present technological ideas to solve a problem in society.

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