Pakistani Currency Recognition to Assist Blind Person Based on Convolutional Neural Network

A visually impaired person faces many difficulties in their daily life, such as having trouble finding their ways, recognize the person and objects. One of the crucial problems is to recognize the currencies for a blind or visually impaired person. In this research article, we have proposed a system to recognize a Pakistani currency for a blind or visually impaired person based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). In the proposed system, seven different Pakistani paper currency notes (Rs.10, 20, 50, 100,500, 1000 and 5000) are used for training and testing. Experimental results show that the proposed system can recognize seven notes of Pakistan's Currency (Rs. 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000) successfully with an accuracy of 96.85%.