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Simulated Prosthetic Vision: Improving text accessibility with retinal prostheses


Abstract:

Image processing can improve significantly the every-day life of blind people wearing current and upcoming retinal prostheses relying on an external camera. We propose to...Show More

Abstract:

Image processing can improve significantly the every-day life of blind people wearing current and upcoming retinal prostheses relying on an external camera. We propose to use a real-time text localization algorithm to improve text accessibility. An augmented text-specific rendering based on automatic text localization has been developed. It has been evaluated in comparison to the classical rendering through a Simulated Prosthetic Vision (SPV) experiment with 16 subjects. Subjects were able to detect text in natural scenes much faster and further with the augmented rendering compared to the control rendering. Our results show that current and next generation of low resolution retinal prostheses may benefit from real-time text detection algorithms.
Date of Conference: 26-30 August 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 06 November 2014
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4244-7929-0

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PubMed ID: 25570307
Conference Location: Chicago, IL, USA

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