For blind and low-vision people
WisePath warns you about obstacles, holes and the edge of the path – with the distance – in a calm, natural voice. Indoors and outdoors, with nothing more than the phone you already have.
A cane covers about one metre in front of your feet. It cannot tell you that a pole is coming, that there is a hole two steps ahead, that a door is open or closed, or that the path bends left and you are drifting onto the grass. Guide dogs help, but they take years and large budgets to train, and waiting lists are long.
Apps that describe a photo help you read a sign – but you have to stop, aim and wait. Walking needs something that keeps watching and only speaks when it matters.
On a lanyard or chest clip, camera facing forward. Open WisePath and tap the top half of the screen for indoor, the bottom half for outdoor.
WisePath warns you early (“Pole slightly left, about 2 meters”) and again, urgently, if you get close (“Tree very close on your left”). Otherwise it stays quiet.
Tap anywhere: “Closest to you, a bench on your right, about 3 meters away. Then a trash can…”. Press and hold to end the trip. No menus, no buttons to find.
35 seconds on a city street, recorded with an iPhone and run through WisePath exactly as it runs live. Boxes show what was detected and how far away it is; the voice is what the user hears.
Object detection fine-tuned on our own street recordings for holes, bollards, poles, bins, trees and crosswalks, plus a walkable-ground model that separates paving from grass and soil.
Every warning comes with metres. Distance is estimated from known object sizes, the ground plane and a monocular depth network – from a single phone camera.
Early and urgent warnings, priorities that let an urgent warning interrupt, and silence when the way is clear. A natural human voice, not a robotic one.
Two large touch zones, one tap, one hold. Everything is labelled for screen readers and spoken aloud.
Camera frames are analysed and discarded. No video is stored, no account is needed to try it.
Working prototype: iPhone camera streamed to an AI server over Wi-Fi. Next: a fully on-device app for iOS and Android.
WisePath started from one question: what would a sighted friend say while walking next to you? Not a description of everything – just “careful, hole ahead”, “the path bends right”, “the door is open”.
Founder: Amin Salimi – AI and computer-vision engineer.
We are looking for pilot users, associations for the blind, orientation & mobility trainers and early investors who want to help millions of people walk with confidence.
Tell us a little about you – user, trainer, association or investor – and we’ll be in touch.
Or write to vision@wisepath.site
