Navigation is a crucial element in any person's life, whether for work, education, social living or any other miscellaneous reason; naturally, the importance of it is universally recognised and valued. One of the critical components of navigation is vision, which facilitates movement from one place to another. Navigating unfamiliar settings, especially for the blind or visually impaired, can pose significant challenges, impacting their independence and quality of life. Current assistive travel solutions have shortcomings, including GPS limitations and a demand for an efficient, user-friendly, and portable model. Addressing these concerns, this paper presents VidereX: a smartphone-based solution using an ant-inspired navigation algorithm. Emulating ants' ability to learn a route between nest and feeding grounds after a single traversal, VidereX enables users to rapidly acquire navigational data using a one/few-shot learning strategy. A key component of VidereX is its emphasis on active user engagement. Like ants with a scanning behaviour to actively investigate their environment, users wield the camera, actively exploring the visual landscape. Far from the passive reception of data, this process constitutes a dynamic exploration, echoing nature's navigational mechanisms.

翻译：导航是每个人生活中不可或缺的要素，无论是工作、教育、社交生活还是其他各类事务；自然，其重要性得到了普遍认可和重视。视觉作为导航的关键组成部分，促进了从一个地点到另一个地点的移动。在陌生环境中导航，尤其是对盲人或视障人士而言，会带来显著挑战，影响其独立性和生活质量。现有的辅助出行解决方案存在不足，包括全球定位系统（GPS）的局限性以及对高效、用户友好且便携模型的需求。针对这些问题，本文提出VidereX：一种基于智能手机、采用蚂蚁启发导航算法的解决方案。VidereX模拟蚂蚁仅需一次遍历即可学会巢穴与觅食地之间路线的能力，使用户能够通过一次/少样本学习策略快速获取导航数据。VidereX的一个关键组成部分是其对用户主动参与的重现。如同蚂蚁通过扫描行为主动探索环境，用户操控摄像头，积极探索视觉景观。这一过程远非被动接收数据，而是构成一种动态探索，呼应了自然的导航机制。