9 October 2022

NEOM names BlindLine among the three winning teams of the first OXAGON Hackathon

Participants working together at the first OXAGON Hackathon in Riyadh (image: NEOM)

NEOM announced that BlindLine, the team from Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, was one of three winners of the first OXAGON Hackathon, held in Riyadh in partnership with the Saudi Ministry of Education. NEOM describes the BlindLine solution as using artificial intelligence to enable the learning of Braille.

BlindLine grew out of the AI-powered Braille learning research led by AIRL’s Founding Director, Dr. Ghazanfar Latif, work that also underlies the granted US patent for a Braille reader system (US 11,393,361) and, in 2024, the gold medal at Geneva. The winning teams were offered support from the OXAGON accelerator to develop their ideas further.

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BlindLine Ring, a ring-like device that helps visually impaired people learn Braille, shown on screen at the PreBinary stand
The BlindLine Ring concept: an innovative ring-like device that enables visually impaired people to learn Braille independently at their fingertips.

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