Florence Chan’s award-winning AI vision tool helps the blind navigate their world

South China Morning Post

6th March 2025

Florence Chan’s award-winning AI vision tool helps the blind navigate their world

In 2019, Florence Chan was in the third year of her PhD in biomedical engineering. Her research focused on using artificial-intelligence vision to recognise the status of cells, differentiating between stem cells, cancerous and healthy ones. She was impressed with how efficient AI was in recognising their subtle differences. One day, while taking a break from the lab, she was strolling through a shopping centre when she spotted a group of visually impaired people navigating the mall with the traditional tools of the blind: canes and guide dogs. She wondered, “Could AI vision support them?”

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