Title
Visual perception substitution by the auditory sense
Abstract
This paper presents the methodology to develop a sensory substitution system. We deal with the absence of visual inputs in humans, and we substitute the blindness by the auditory sense. Visual to auditory substitution involves delivering information about the visual world using auditory signals. The system allows the transformation of digital images captured from a web cam into sound patterns, using a novel scanning method from the center to the left and right side of the image. We define a robust correspondence between the image features and the sound features. The results provided by the system seems high enough to address many practical situations that normally require the sense of sight. Navigation experiments with blind people, have demonstrated the ability of the system to offer a permanent sensory substitution device in the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_40
ICCSA
Keywords
Field
DocType
sensory substitution,visual perception,human computer interaction
Computer vision,Auditory scene analysis,Feature (computer vision),Computer science,Speech recognition,Digital image,Auditory sense,Artificial intelligence,Sensory substitution,Auditory display,Visual perception,Selective auditory attention
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6783
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
7
5