A Systematic Literature Review of the Mobile Application for Object Recognition for Visually Impaired People

Nowadays, mobile applications or also known as mobile apps are one of the most important sources of communication and gives a lot of benefits to a person. Mobile technology advancements have brought an excessive change in people's daily lifestyles which has led to high demand for developing software that can give benefit to a person that runs on a mobile device. Mobile apps are represented visually on a smartphone, which it is not user-friendly for visually impaired people. The number of visually impaired people are growing in each of the countries in the world. Most technologies are being developed to help people with visual impairment because they still have difficulties in using assistive technologies. This systematic literature review attempts to provide findings on the project for visually impaired people to recognize objects using their smartphones. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method was used to collect and review the current state of analysis concerning object recognition for visually impaired people on mobile platforms. Overall, this research covered articles published in three databases which are ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore and Google Scholar and the articles selected are between 2013 until 2019. This paper is based on the Kitchenham methodology where the keyword search and exclusion criteria to select the articles about the topic were used. After reading the total of 371 titles of articles based on keywords, 323 abstracts were examined thoroughly. Then, 21 full-text articles were chosen for the final review. The findings show the techniques, tools used and methods on how the system was implemented to recognize object.