Publications

Explore our latest research contributions to the field of Wheelchair Accessibility and AI

OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility

A. S. M. Hossain, N. Mahmud, M. O. Gani, and V. Raychoudhury

📅 IEEE COMPSAC • 2026

IEEE 50th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) 2026 (Accepted)

Beyond Noisy Ground Truth: Noisily Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Accessible Sidewalks and Crosswalks from Satellite Images

E. Han, N. Mahmud, C. Cordon, D. Saxena, M. O. Gani, V. Raychoudhury, and J. Femiani

📅 IEEE SmartComp / SSC • 2026

IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp) 2026, Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC 2026)

A Smart and Barrier-Aware Navigation System for Wheelchair Routing

A. M. Hossain, N. Mahmud, E. Han, N. Advani, B. Baral, M. O. Gani, and V. Raychoudhury

📅 IEEE MASS • 2025

IEEE 22nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2025, pp. 717–722

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OmniAcc: Personalized Accessibility Assistant Using Generative AI

S. Karki, E. Han, N. Mahmud, S. Bhunia, J. Femiani, and V. Raychoudhury

📅 AAAI • 2025

1st Workshop on AI for Urban Planning, 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2025), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Mar. 2025

📄 arXiv

MyPath: Accessible Route Generation using Crowd-sensed Surface Information

Nguyen, Md Fourkanul Islam, Rochishnu Banerjee, Hanna M. Noyce, Emily M. Olejniczak, Roger O. Smith, Md Osman

📅 EAI MobiQuitous • 2023

EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (MobiQuitous)

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Accessible Routing Using MyPath: Testing and PAR Feedback on the Data Collection Module Information

Olejniczak, E., Noyce, Islam, M. F., Banerjee, R., Raychoudhury, V., Gani, M.O., and Smith, R. O

📅 RESNA • 2023

RESNA Annual Conference

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Surface Recognition from Wheelchair-induced Noisy Vibration Data: A Tale of Many Cities

R Banerjee, MF Islam, S Saha, V Raychoudhury, MO Gani

📅 IEEE MSN • 2022

2022 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN)

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Automated Surface Classification System using Vibration Patterns-A Case Study with Wheelchairs

Haoxiang Yu, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Snehanshu Saha, Janick Edinger, Roger O Smith, Md Osman Gani

📅 IEEE Transactions • 2022

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

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MyPath: Accessible Routing for Wheelchair Users

Shaswati Saha, Lauren Selingo, Emily Olejniczak, Hanna Noyce, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Roger O Smith, Md Osman Gani

📅 RESNA • 2022

Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)

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A Transfer Learning Approach to Surface Detection for Accessible Routing for Wheelchair Users

Valeria Mokrenko, Haoxiang Yu, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Janick Edinger, Roger O Smith, Md Osman Gani

📅 COMPSAC • 2021

2021 IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

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Smart surface classification for accessible routing through built environment: A crowd-sourced approach

Md Osman Gani, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Janick Edinger, Valeria Mokrenko, Zheng Cao, Ce Zhang

📅 BuildSys • 2019

Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

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Wheelshare: Crowd-sensed surface classification for accessible routing

Janick Edinger, Alexandra Hofmann, Anton Wachner, Christian Becker, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Christian Krupitzer

📅 PerCom Workshops • 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)

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