Two teenager brothers, Taurus and Vishvesh Krishna, who live in bengluru, have created an app that helps to identify Amblyopia, the defect of children's eyes, in time.  His app has also received the Grand Prize at the Iris National Fair, which is the country's largest research-based science fair for students.  Actually, in this disease, one eye is good and the other is weak and later on it stops appearing from the other eye.  His app KANNA is the result of his mission that the defects of the eyes of the children should be known in time.  Actually, he got the inspiration to create this app from his own experience.


●Inspiration from childhood eye disease

When Taurus was two years old, he developed Amblyopia, due to which he could not catch the ball coming towards him like other children while playing.  Similarly, when other children of his age came running down the stairs, Taurus used to take a long time to get down, watching every step properly.  Later, he also started having problems in writing.  Many times his disease did not catch even after undergoing eye test.  Often their parents were told that they would recover with aging, but could not satisfy their doctors' reply.  After this, when he showed Taurus to the doctor in Bangalore, it was found out that he had Amblyopia.


●App designed for children
The experience of being diagnosed with his illness and the delay in starting treatment prompted Taurus to create an app that could detect this defect in time.  For this, users have to upload passport size photos of children.  After this with the help of image processing and machine learning techniques, this app can identify potential eye hazards.  According to Taurus, the app has completed clinical validation with 90.5 percent accuracy through testing on a thousand children and will soon be available to common users.  Apart from this, they are planning to detect this disease in children soon in the rural areas through eye camps.