Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness

M Beyeler, M Sanchez-Garcia - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. How can we return a functional form of sight to people who are living with
incurable blindness? Despite recent advances in the development of visual …

Augmented reality powers a cognitive assistant for the blind

Y Liu, NRB Stiles, M Meister - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
To restore vision for the blind, several prosthetic approaches have been explored that
convey raw images to the brain. So far, these schemes all suffer from a lack of bandwidth. An …

Neurolight: A deep learning neural interface for cortical visual prostheses

A Lozano, JS Suárez, C Soto-Sánchez… - … journal of neural …, 2020 - World Scientific
Visual neuroprosthesis, that provide electrical stimulation along several sites of the human
visual system, constitute a potential tool for vision restoration for the blind. Scientific and …

[PDF][PDF] A review on applications of artificial intelligence on bionic eye designing and functioning

P Sarkar, O Dewangan, A Joshi - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into bionic eye technology has led to significant
advancements in the field of visual prostheses. Bionic eyes have the potential to restore …

Immersive virtual reality simulations of bionic vision

J Kasowski, M Beyeler - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Bionic vision uses neuroprostheses to restore useful vision to people living with incurable
blindness. However, a major outstanding challenge is predicting what people “see” when …

A survey on recent advances in AI and vision-based methods for helping and guiding visually impaired people

H Walle, C De Runz, B Serres, G Venturini - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present in this paper the state of the art and an analysis of recent research work and
achievements performed in the domain of AI-based and vision-based systems for helping …

Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges

E Borda, D Ghezzi - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Vision is an extraordinary sense through which we can appreciate the beauty of the world
we live in, gain invaluable knowledge and communicate with others using visual expression …

Vision processing for assistive vision: A deep reinforcement learning approach

J White, T Kameneva… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is increasing interest in using computer vision and machine learning to enhance
human decision making with computer-mediated assistive vision systems. In particular …

The relative importance of depth cues and semantic edges for indoor mobility using simulated prosthetic vision in immersive virtual reality

A Rasla, M Beyeler - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Visual neuroprostheses (bionic eyes) have the potential to treat degenerative eye diseases
that often result in low vision or complete blindness. These devices rely on an external …

Enhancing perception for the visually impaired with deep learning techniques and low-cost wearable sensors

Z Bauer, A Dominguez, E Cruz, F Gomez-Donoso… - Pattern recognition …, 2020 - Elsevier
As estimated by the World Health Organization, there are millions of people who lives with
some form of vision impairment. As a consequence, some of them present mobility problems …