IRIS – Innovative Recognition for Impaired Sights 👁️📱
Empowering elderly and visually impaired users with AI-driven visual assistance.
📱 About the Project
IRIS is a mobile application built using Flutter, designed to assist elderly and visually impaired individuals in navigating daily life more independently. It utilizes state-of-the-art AI models for real-time object detection, text recognition, and text-to-speech conversion, providing accessible information from the user's environment via voice feedback.
Documentations
🎯 Key Features
- Object Detection using YOLOv11 (Ultralytics)
- Text Recognition (OCR) using Google Cloud Vision API
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) via Google Cloud TTS
- Voice Reminders for medication or daily tasks
- Emergency Button linked to predefined contacts
- Firebase Auth for secure login and user management
- Firestore Cloud DB for storing user preferences and history
- Flutter Framework for cross-platform Android/iOS support
🧪 Tech Stack
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Mobile Framework | Flutter |
| Object Detection | YOLOv11 (Ultralytics) |
| OCR API | Google Cloud Vision |
| TTS API | Google Cloud Text-to-Speech |
| Backend/Auth | Firebase Authentication |
| Database | Cloud Firestore |
| Notifications | Firebase Cloud Messaging |
| Version Control | Git + GitHub |
Getting Started
Prerequisites
- Flutter SDK (3.0+)
- Firebase project set up with Auth & Firestore
- Google Cloud Vision & TTS API enabled
- Android Studio or VS Code
Installation
git clone https://github.com/valentypo/iris_application.git
flutter pub get
(to run the object detection backend)
cd iris-backend
python app.py
flutter run