Find My Things: New teachable AI tool helps blind and low-vision people locate lost personal items
Assistive technologies have helped millions of people who are blind or have low vision with a variety of daily tasks, from converting text to speech and summarizing complex documents to using public transportation and navigating unfamiliar environments.
On the other hand, developing technology that can help people with vision disabilities find frequently used and easily misplaced personal items in almost any physical space has proved much more difficult. Until now.
Find My Things, developed by members of the Microsoft Research Teachable AI Experiences (Tai X) (opens in new tab) team with the help of a citizen design team they assembled for the project, is a teachable AI tool designed to solve that problem. Now available as a feature of the World channel in Seeing AI (opens in new tab)—Microsoft’s phone app for the blind and low-vision community that uses an intelligent camera and the power of AI to describe people, text, currency, color, and objects—Find My Things makes it easy for people to use their phones to recognize and locate the personal items they use every day. Find My Things was recently honored in both the [...]