Prepare yourself folks for yet another techy episode, with Shawn Kirkpatrick. Shawn is the creator of Loadstone app, quite famous app for navigation in the blind and visually impaired community. We covered a lot of things in this podcast, I have to rewind the episode myself to remember all of the topics, ; however, I can promise that it was rather entertaining conversation.

We talked about theLoadstone app itself of course, the features, how he got started, and what's next. We geeked out on other tech related ideas besides the app itself, like home automation, programming, accessibility and layer upon layer about other tech topics.

I really enjoy conversations like that, and I hope you enjoy them too... Tune in for yet another techVB episode...

Annika offers insights on the AI image captioning technology, and explains what it is, how it works, and what are the current struggles. Currently, she is doing research on image captioning for blind and vision impaired individuals at TU (Technological University Dublin)

We haven’t stop recording when we covered the basics of AI image captioning, not at all, we took deep dive in to more advanced topics like using synthetic data for neural network training, as well as result benchmarking, and way more.

This podcast is full of insights and should satisfy beginners as well as geekiest users. As far as I remember we covered way more topics than image captioning...So, tune in for the latest episode and don't forget to visit: techvb.net for more content.

In this episode I am talking withDr. Susan McKeever Senior lecturer in School of Computer Science at Technological University Dublin. The main purpose behind this episode was To answer important questions such as: What AI can do for blind and visually impaired? What are the immediate, practical applications? What problems can be solved right now? and solutions  for the future? Susan is a pro in this field without a doubt, she is supervising PhD students in practical AI research and implementation, she also teaches advanced computer science subjects. It was very insightful and interesting conversation indeed. We covered: image processing capabilities for object detection and scene recognition, current limitations, and what are improvements for the future. Susan explained innovative AI solution for enhancing navigation guidance, and explained how that can help in giving more precise information for blind and vision impaired individuals. There is plenty more interesting and insightful ideas, as well as questions and answers, that should be interesting, particularly for blind and visually impaired folks, so enjoy this rather futuristic and educational conversation.