Augmenting intensity to enhance scene structure in prosthetic vision

Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  McCarthy, Chris ^a,b   Feng, David ^a,b   Barnes, Nick ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

image processing; low vision; mobility and orientation; prosthetic vision

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANT FEATURES; LOCAL VARIATIONS; LOW VISION; PROSTHETIC VISION; SCENE REPRESENTATION; SURFACE ORIENTATION; VISUAL APPEARANCE; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EXHIBITIONS;

EID: 84888254562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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