Visual Assistance Technology

Mobile applications and devices that take videos or images as input and provide verbal, haptic, or other non-visual output to help blind and low vision people access visual information. VAT can be human-enabled (e.g., Be My Eyes, Aira) where remote sighted volunteers or agents describe what they see, or AI-enabled (e.g., Seeing AI, Envision AI) where computer vision and language models generate descriptions automatically.