Mingyu Xie

StreetNav: Leveraging Street Cameras to Support Precise Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people rely on GPS-based systems for outdoor navigation. GPS's inaccuracy, however, causes them to veer off track, run into obstacles, and struggle to reach precise destinations. While prior work has made precise navigation possible indoors via hardware installations, enabling this outdoors…