A PDA based artificial human vision simulator

Jason Dowling; Anthony Maeder; Wageeh Boles; Brian Carrington Lovell; Anthony Maeder

A PDA based artificial human vision simulator

Jason Dowling
, Anthony Maeder
, Wageeh Boles
, Brian Carrington Lovell
, Anthony Maeder

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Abstract

Much recent research attention has focused on providing some form of visually meaningful information to blind people through electrical stimulation of a component of the visual system. Current technology limits the number of perceived points of light (phosphenes) that can be provided to a user and methods are required to optimize the amount of presented information. This paper describes a PDA based artificial human vision simulator, and proposes a method for alerting a user of possible looming obstacles. Experimental results indicate that obstacle alerts can be successfully provided, however with the current simulator components, high-quality lighting and accurate image segmentation is critical for reducing the number of false alerts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS) Workshop on Digital Image Computing: WDIC 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 12 February 2005
Publisher	IEEE Society
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0958025533
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing - Duration: 1 Jan 2005 → …

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Conference	APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing
Period	1/01/05 → …

Keywords

artificial vision
blind
orientation and mobility
image processing
simulation

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