Substituting depth for intensity and real-time phosphene rendering: Visual navigation under low vision conditions

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8017-8020

  Lieby, Paulette ^a,b   Barnes, Nick ^a,b   McCarthy, Chris ^a,b   Liu, Nianjun ^a,b   Dennett, Hugh ^b   Walker, Janine G ^c   Botea, Viorica ^a   Scott, Adele F ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Center for Mental Health Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; INTENSITY-BASED; LOW RESOLUTION; LOW VISION; NAVIGATION ENVIRONMENT; NOVEL METHODS; PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE; PIXEL INTENSITIES; SOFTWARE-BASED METHOD; SPEED IMPROVEMENT; VISUAL NAVIGATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAY FINDING;

NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW VISION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ALGORITHMS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOSPHENES; TIME FACTORS; VISION, LOW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055223078     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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