Paper Info
Title
Transformative reality: Augmented reality for visual prostheses
Abstract
Visual prostheses such as retinal implants provide bionic vision that is limited in spatial and intensity resolution. This limitation is a fundamental challenge of bionic vision as it severely truncates salient visual information. We propose to address this challenge by performing real time transformations of visual and non-visual sensor data into symbolic representations that are then rendered as low resolution vision; a concept we call Transformative Reality. For example, a depth camera allows the detection of empty ground in cluttered environments that is then visually rendered as bionic vision to enable indoor navigation. Such symbolic representations are similar to virtual content overlays used in Augmented Reality but are registered to the 3D world via the user's sense of touch. Preliminary user trials, where a head mounted display artificially constrains vision to a 25脳25 grid of binary dots, suggest that Transformative Reality provides practical and significant improvements over traditional bionic vision in tasks such as indoor navigation, object localisation and people detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ISMAR.2011.6092402
ISMAR
Keywords
Field
DocType
real time systems,head mounted display,edge detection,augmented reality,low resolution,spatial resolution,biomedical imaging,visualization,real time,computer graphic
Computer vision,Transformative learning,Visualization,Computer science,Augmented reality,Optical head-mounted display,Artificial intelligence,Overlay,Multimedia,Retinal implant,Grid,Salient
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1554-7868
1
0.43
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen Lik Dennis Lui1424.59
Damien Browne2101.87
Lindsay Kleeman373685.03
Tom Drummond42676159.45
Wai Ho Li5667.19