The Bionic Eye - Latest Developments in Vision Processing for the Bionic Eye
Nick Barnes (NICTA)
COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS SERIESDATE: 2013-08-22
TIME: 17:30:00 - 18:30:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
In Canberra, NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence, is developing innovative vision processing strategies for a retinal implant, or bionic eye. An external set of cameras mounted on glasses takes image streams of the environment. Vision processing algorithms convert these images into electrical stimulation patterns result in users seeing visual percepts, often refered to as phosphenes. These phosphenes are restricted in the amount of information they can convey compared to normal human vision. Our approach to vision processing is to use computer vision to understand aspects of the visual scene, and ensure key information to the task at hand is available visually.
BIO:
Nick Barnes is Principal researcher and leader of the computer vision research group at NICTA, and a lead investigator of the Bionic Vision Australia consortium which aims to develop a bionic eye. Nick has been at NICTA's Canberra Research Laboratory since 2003. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne from 2000 to 2003, a visiting researcher at the LIRA Lab, University of Genoa, Italy in 1999. He completed his BSc (Hons) and PhD in computer vision for robot navigation at the University of Melbourne, in 1999. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications in refereed journals and conferences. His research interests focus on computer vision and prosthetic vision.
