Table 5 Comparison of assistive systems.
System | Functionality | Hardware | Limitations | Source type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pi-Assist | Face recognition and object detection | Raspberry Pi 4 | Limited offline operation, no integrated news reading | Conference paper |
EyePi | Image captioning via CNN-LSTM | Raspberry Pi 3 | High latency on CPU, single-domain captions | Preprint / arXiv |
SmartVisionPi | Multimodal assistance (face + TTS) | Raspberry Pi 4 | No online news, limited modularity | Whitepaper / Tech blog |
BlindSpot—VisionGuide (proposed) | Face recognition, image captioning, online newspaper reading | Raspberry Pi 5 | Partial offline news, moderate caption latency | Current work |
