via-py: Code used in the papers "Visually Impaired Aid using Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning, and Particle Competition and Cooperation" and "Convolutional Neural Networks and Ensembles for Visually Impaired Aid"

The dataset is available at: https://github.com/fbreve/via-dataset

The Matlab code inside the via-pcc directory uses the Particle and Cooperation method: https://github.com/fbreve/Particle-Competition-and-Cooperation

If you use this code, please cite the original publications:

BREVE, Fabricio Aparecido; FISCHER, Carlos Norberto. Visually Impaired Aid using Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning, and Particle Competition and Cooperation In: 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020), 2020, Glasgow, UK. Proceedings of 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020), 2020. DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207606

BREVE, Fabricio Aparecido. Convolutional Neural Networks and Ensembles for Visually Impaired Aid In: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2023, Atenas, Grécia. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2023 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. v.13956. p.520 - 534. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36805-9_34

Accepted Manuscripts: https://www.fabriciobreve.com/artigos/2020/wcci2020.pdf https://www.fabriciobreve.com/artigos/2023/iccsa2023.pdf