Mobility enhancement and assessment for a visual prosthesis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5369, Issue , 2004, Pages 780-791

  Dowling, Jason ^a   Maeder, Anthony ^a   Boles, Wageeh ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial human vision; Blind mobility; Image processing; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROSTHETICS;

ARTIFICIAL HUMAN VISION; BLIND MOBILITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 3042686001     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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