Title
A real-time image optimization strategy based on global saliency detection for artificial retinal prostheses.
Abstract
Current retinal prostheses can only generate low-resolution visual percepts constituted of inadequate phosphenes which are elicited by a limited number of stimulating electrodes and with unruly color and restricted grayscale. Fortunately, for most retinal prostheses, an external camera and a video processing unit are employed to be essential components, and allow image processing to improve visual perception for recipients. At present, there have been some studies that use a variety of sophisticated image processing algorithms to improve prosthetic vision perception. However, most of them cannot achieve real-time processing due to the complexity of the algorithms and the limitation of platform processing power. This greatly curbs the practical application of these algorithms on the retinal prostheses. In this study, we propose a real-time image processing strategy based on a novel bottom-up saliency detection algorithm, aiming to detect and enhance foreground objects in a scene. Results demonstrate by verification of conducting two eye-hand-coordination visual tasks that under simulated prosthetic vision, our proposed strategy has noticeable advantages in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and head motion range. The study aims to help develop image processing modules in retinal prostheses, and is hoped to provide more benefit towards prosthesis recipients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.ins.2017.06.014
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Retinal prostheses,Simulated prosthetic vision,Saliency detection,Eye-hand coordination
Computer vision,Video processing,Eye–hand coordination,Salience (neuroscience),Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Digital image processing,Perception,Mathematics,Visual perception,Grayscale
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
415
0020-0255
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
18
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heng Li152.10
Tingting Han224819.06
Jing Wang362.11
Zhuofan Lu441.38
Xiaofei Cao541.38
Yao Chen640.70
Liming Li752.68
Chuanqing Zhou840.70
Xinyu Chai951.76