DRISTEE — Navigation Assistant for Visually Impaired

DRISTEE (Depth-aware Recognition and Intelligent Scene Translation for Enhanced Engagement) is a real-time, cloud-assisted navigation assistant for visually impaired users, built under BRAC University's Research Seed Grant Initiative 2025. It fuses depth-aware scene mapping, object detection and facial recognition with voice-command NLP in a modular architecture, aiming to give a user personalized, low-latency spatial awareness — what's ahead, how far, and who's nearby — through natural spoken interaction rather than a screen.

The project is ongoing, spanning model integration, implementation, and academic writing, and the research has now been submitted for journal publication. Method and evaluation details are held back until the review process concludes.