Design and development of a computer vision algorithm and tool for currency recognition in indian vernacular langagues for visually challenged people

Abstract

God created this universe and all living and non-living entities. Human is one of the best among His creations and in Human beings, eyes are the best gift of God to see His creations. As of now, humans are considered as the only developed creatures among God's creations and have developed themselves from Stone Age to the Computing Era. As the human civilizations grew up, the transactions have moved from barter system to currency. Every country has its own currency in terms of coins and paper notes. Each of the currency of Individual County has its unique features, colors, denominations and international value. We, all, having been given two beautiful eyes could recognize the currency easily but the same is not easy for blind people. The denomination can easily be recognized for a currency but it becomes difficult to identify a counterfeit currency from the real one. Especially for the blind people, it is a herculean task like finding a needle from haystack. The motive behind this work is to develop and test a robust computer vision algorithm(s) to identify the Indian currency, mainly paper-based currency, in Indian Regional languages.