Computer Vision News - February 2017

Giora and other real-life Sesame phone testimonials A very moving video. Click to launch it! solution. Giora can’t move his hands or his legs, but he can move his head . I could track his head using computer vision. He asked me if I could make a phone for him. So we set out to meet. It turns out Giora lives down the block from my parents. I saw him, and it opened my eyes to what it’s like to have a disability. I’m glad to say that I didn’t have anyone before in my close circle with a disability. Giora is in a wheelchair. He fell off of a ladder 10 years ago trying to help a friend fix the water heater and was paralyzed from a spinal cord injury. It’s always these freak accidents… ” Ben Dov realized that his skills could help someone, even if it’s just one thing. No one else around him could do that and he felt it was almost his responsibility to take on the challenge. They set out to do it. For a year it was incubated in Ben Dov’s previous business. The product took form, had a group of concepts and several beta users. Then he closed his software development house and focused on Sesame Enable. Right now they are six people working at the app in a private company. This past year, they partnered with Google.org and Beit Issie Shapiro , a nonprofit in Israel. With a Google subsidy , they could give out their technology to anyone who needed it, so that it went out for free. For the product, it meant exposure for almost 1,000 users. Feedback was good and they launched over 10 updates during the year. The product was obviously far superior to the one they had started with. Now that the learning curve is less steep, Ben Dov says, users get it and adopt it right away. The challenge now is to commercialize it and get the attention of the people who need it, worldwide, in addition to current users from Saudi Arabia, Australia, South Africa, the USA, Russia, China, Europe and many more. This is what the application does: you have a person who cannot move and wants to use a smartphone, like in the video below , where you will meet with Giora himself and listen to several real testimonials of people whose lives have Computer Vision News Application 5 Application If you want to try the Sesame app yourself, download it on your Android 7 device! “It opened my eyes to what it’s like to have a disability”