Smart glasses are a product of Nguyen Minh Nhat Huy, a 12th grade IT student at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (District 5) that helps deaf people communicate using signs with normal people without assistance.
The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition held an award ceremony on the morning of June 10. Huy's smart glasses product was awarded second prize in the application product category.
Huy shared that he developed the product with the desire to help deaf people (deaf and mute) have the opportunity to communicate with normal people without the need for sign language interpretation. "The glasses help deaf people have the opportunity to narrow the gap in communication with society, erasing their inferiority complex," Huy said.
Nhat Huy tested the smart glasses at the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition on May 20. Photo: Ha An
Since August last year, Huy has been designing smart glasses with a camera that records the hand gestures of the deaf. The data is transmitted to the processor for analysis and produces sound so that normal people can hear the signs they want to say. Conversely, the speech of normal people is collected by the microphone and displayed on the screen placed on the glasses so that the deaf person can read the content.
Currently, Huy's product can analyze about 60 basic communication characters. Huy believes that this is a very modest number, accounting for only 1% of the sign language volume of deaf people. "In the future, we will thicken the data to about 1,000 gestures to make communication easier with a larger data set," Huy said, adding that he plans to integrate a phone SIM into his glasses to help deaf people communicate with friends far away, helping them have more social relationships.
The product was tested by Huy on 6 people at two specialized schools in Ho Chi Minh City, and was evaluated as useful and enjoyable. The estimated cost of one pair of glasses is about 800,000 VND, which according to Huy is suitable for the conditions of many users.
Evaluating the product, Master Le Anh Tien, a member of the Jury of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition, said that Huy's idea was very humane in its concern for disadvantaged groups in society. The product also has potential for practical application, but he said that the author could use sensors to increase the accuracy of hand gesture recognition instead of using cameras. In addition, Mr. Tien suggested that Huy could research a form of smart gloves with similar functions instead of glasses to make the product more aesthetically pleasing.
The Ho Chi Minh City Young Informatics Contest is held annually for primary to high school students by the Center for Youth Science and Technology Development (City Youth Union) and other units for the first time in 1991. In 2023, the contest attracted 769 finalists from 22 local youth unions of the city and 4 Ho Chi Minh City IT teams. Previously, the online round had nearly 87,000 contestants from more than 700 schools participating.
In the application product table, the Organizing Committee awarded 2 second prizes, 4 third prizes, and 4 consolation prizes. In the IT knowledge and skills table, there were 4 first prizes, 7 second prizes, 11 third prizes, and 61 consolation prizes.
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