Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0234229

Funded Activity Summary

Image processing techniques for artificial human vision systems. Blindness affects millions of people worldwide and over 100,000 Australians. Our project supports quality of life improvements for them by developing image processing techniques necessary for artificial human vision systems: "bionic eyes". Our approach will extract the most visually informative content in a scene,allowing low resolution images to be generated which optimise usage of the limited number of eletrodes available in prototype bionic eye implants. Psychophysical tests presenting such modified images to normally sighted participants will verify the effectiveness of this approach. The techniques developed will provide a real-time image processing toolkit for visual protheses, with significant commercial and social benefits including enhancement of Australilia's neuroprostheses industry profile.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 13-12-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $67,635.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Virtual Reality And Related Simulation | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Biomedical Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ability and disability | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders |

Other Keywords

Ability and disability | Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Virtual Reality And Related Simulation | Visual Communication

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