CSEIT1722113 | Received : 15 March 2017 | Accepted : 25 March 2017 | March-April-2017 [(2)2: 372-376] International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology © 2017 IJSRCSEIT | Volume 2 | Issue 2 | ISSN : 2456-3307 372 Wearable Face Recognition System to Aid Visually Impaired People Poonam Liladhar Agrawal, Prof. D. D. Patil Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hindi Seva Mandal’s, Shri Sant Gadge Baba College of Engineering & Technology, Bhusawal, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India ABSTRACT Visually impaired people faces lot of problems in day to day life. Our goal is to make them lead a life which is of security and safety for their own wellbeing. The inability to recognize known individuals in the absence of audio or haptic cues severely restrictions the visually impaired in their social interactions and puts them at risk from a security viewpoint. Different systems have been developed to aid them so; they can help themselves without the help of second person. In recent years, several prototype systems have been developed to aid this people with the face recognition task. Overview of face recognition system is summarized for aiding the blind and low-vision people. In which one system uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor as a wearable device, performs face detection, and also generates a sound associated with the identified person, virtualized at his/her estimated 3-D location. Keywords : Visually impaired, face recognition, wearable system, system, recognition. I. INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization has estimated that they are about 285 million vision impaired people in this world, of which 39 million are blind and the 246 have low vision [1]. Vision impairment is a barrier for the daily activities and there is constant striking for the new system to help them. Daily tasks such as walking, reading and the things recognizing becomes difficult for visually impaired users. System supporting new technology can assist them in some of the tasks. One of the challenge faced are the face recognition problem. It generally takes place when they are in social situation when the conversation has to be interrupted not only by words but also by non verbal means that is the facial expressions. As, technology are advancing wearable device have been develop to assist this. It would be useful to know someone position without him/her to speak so that he can turn to it and engage him in their conversation. For, this hardware platform should be portable and cost effective to reach the majority of visually impaired people. So, for helping the visually impaired people different system have been developed. Face recognition system is one of them which help the user the person in front of us. Section two comprises of survey done on different system. Section 3 comprises of two different technologies used for face recognition. II. METHODS AND MATERIAL LITERATURE SURVEY ON DIFFERENT SYSTEM A. NAVIGATION SYSTEM The Navigation system mainly focuses on two components; sensing of the abrupt surrounding environment against obstacle for the visually impaired person and notice about the obstacle by means of vibration along with voice feedback system. The system mainly consist of design and developing at multiple depth, obstacle detection and RGB sensor, control for detecting at the ground level obstacle and developing sound recording and playing module. Figure 1. System architecture of navigation system[ 2].