Pith Number

pith:YAOWBR3F

pith:2025:YAOWBR3FJSKCQQJGJS6TANAIQT

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A Computer Vision and Depth Sensor-Powered Smart Cane for Real-Time Obstacle Detection and Navigation Assistance for the Visually Impaired

Devesh Khilnani, Sunkalp Chandra, Umang Sharma

arxiv:2508.16698 v1 · 2025-08-22 · q-bio.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAOWBR3FJSKCQQJGJS6TANAIQT}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:58:01.951851Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c01d60c7654c942841264cbd30340884dc71c405731a0fad2bd25798be8ea766

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16698 · arxiv_version: 2508.16698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16698 · pith_short_12: YAOWBR3FJSKC · pith_short_16: YAOWBR3FJSKCQQJG · pith_short_8: YAOWBR3F

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YAOWBR3FJSKCQQJGJS6TANAIQT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c01d60c7654c942841264cbd30340884dc71c405731a0fad2bd25798be8ea766

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f83b652ab7a0af7870d20931666bed5e40082c523990b727f292fd2f3ee3e2e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-22T02:31:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c99095e6e0461533fe26779c889545c37cddbc411cf22497fcfba12cd19a1b12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}