SciFest STEM Champion 2024, Maura Moore-McCune, is competing in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Columbus, Ohio. Maura secured her place in ISEF as part of her prize as the overall winner at the SciFest National Final 2024 last November. She claimed first prize for her project ‘A Device for Detecting Fast Moving Objects for Use by the Vision Impaired’.
Maura developed an app to detect fast-moving objects, so that vision impaired people can live safer and more independent lives. Two design approaches using Machine Learning were developed: a mobile app and smart glasses. The app uses image classification to warn users of fast-moving objects, while the glasses use a YOLOv8 model on OpenCV to estimate object speed.