Smart glasses win the Ho Chi Minh City Young Informatics Application Award.

Smart glasses are a product of Nguyen Minh Nhat Huy, a 12th-grade computer science student at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (District 5), which helps hearing-impaired people communicate using sign language with hearing people without assistance.

The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition held its awards ceremony on the morning of June 10th. Huy's smart glasses product was awarded second prize in the application product category.

Huy shared that he developed the product with the desire to help deaf people have the opportunity to communicate with hearing people without the need for sign language interpretation. "The glasses help deaf people narrow the communication gap with society and eliminate their feelings of inferiority," Huy said.

Nhat Huy tests the functionality of smart glasses at the judging round of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition on May 20th. Photo: Ha An.

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Since last August, Huy has been designing smart glasses with a camera that records the hand gestures of the hearing impaired. The data is transmitted to a processor for analysis and outputs sound, allowing hearing people to understand the sign language they want to use. Conversely, the speech of hearing people is captured by a microphone and displayed on a screen on the glasses so that the hearing impaired can read the content.

Currently, Huy's product can analyze about 60 basic communication symbols. Huy believes this is a very modest number, representing only 1% of the sign language vocabulary of the deaf. "In the future, we will increase the data to about 1,000 gestures to make communication easier with a larger dataset," Huy said, adding that he plans to integrate a phone SIM card into the glasses to help the deaf communicate with friends far away, enabling them to have more social relationships.

Huy tested the product on six people at two special schools in Ho Chi Minh City, and they found it useful and enjoyable. He estimates the cost of one pair of glasses to be around 800,000 VND, which he considers affordable for many users.

Evaluating the product, Master Le Anh Tien, a member of the judging panel for the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition, said that Huy's idea was very humane in showing concern for vulnerable groups in society. The product also has potential for practical application, but he suggested that the author could use sensors to increase the accuracy of hand gesture recognition instead of a camera. Furthermore, Mr. Tien suggested that Huy could research a type of smart glove with similar functionality instead of glasses to make the product more aesthetically pleasing.

The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Informatics Competition is an annual event for elementary to high school students, organized by the Center for the Development of Young Scientists and Technologists (Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union) in collaboration with other units. First held in 1991, the competition attracted 769 finalists from 22 local youth union branches across the city, along with 4 specialized informatics teams from Ho Chi Minh City. Prior to that, the online round saw nearly 87,000 participants from over 700 schools.

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In the application product category, the organizing committee awarded 2 second prizes, 4 third prizes, and 4 consolation prizes. In the IT knowledge and skills category, there were 4 first prizes, 7 second prizes, 11 third prizes, and 61 consolation prizes.

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