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Visual impairment

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Visual Attention on the Sphere

Heinz Hügli, Iva Bogdanova Vandergheynst, Alexandre Bur

Human visual system makes an extensive use of visual attention in order to select the most relevant informations and speed-up the vision process. Inspired by visual attention, several computer models have been developped and many computer vision applicatio ...

2008

Oligopotent stem cells are distributed throughout the mammalian ocular surface

Yann Barrandon, Ariane Rochat, Georges Abou Jaoudé

The integrity of the cornea, the most anterior part of the eye, is indispensable for vision. Forty- five million individuals worldwide are bilaterally blind and another 135 million have severely impaired vision in both eyes because of loss of corneal trans ...

2008

Biologically Motivated Audio-Visual Cue Integration for Object

Barbara Caputo, Jie Luo

Auditory and visual cues are important sensor inputs for biological and artificial systems. They provide crucial information for navigating environments, recognizing categories, animals and people. How to combine effectively these two sensory channels is s ...

2008

Configural modulation of crowding

Michael Herzog, Bilge Sayim, Toni Saarela

The ability to make judgments about a peripheral target stimulus can be impaired when the target is surrounded by flanking stimuli. This effect is called crowding. Crowding is often related to relatively simple low-level mechanisms that pool visual informa ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2008

Visualization Learning for Visually Impaired People

Daniel Thalmann, Patrick Salamin, Frédéric Vexo

Virtual Environments (VE) are mainly visual experiments that exclude visually impaired people. In this paper we present an application that should allow almost everybody to ``see'' or at least to perceive 3D shapes. We will first describe the mandatory asp ...

2007

Microfabricated thin film strain gage sensor with telemetry microprocessor embedded in a soft contact lens for minimally invasive intraocular pressure monitoring

Matteo Leonardi

Increased intraocular pressure (IOP) is the leading cause and the hallmark of Glaucoma, an asymptomatic and irreversible degenerative disease that, undetected or untreated, progresses to blindness due to optic nerve atrophy. Glaucoma is the second cause of ...

EPFL2007

Corneal epithelial cell fate is maintained during repair by Notch1 signaling via the regulation of vitamin A metabolism

Freddy Radtke, Yann Barrandon

Integrity and preservation of a transparent cornea are essential for good vision. The corneal epithelium is stratified and nonkeratinized and is maintained and repaired by corneal stem cells. Here we demonstrate that Notch1 signaling is essential for cell ...

2007

Adaptive visual attention model

Heinz Hügli, Alexandre Bur

Visual attention, defined as the ability of a biological or artificial vision system to rapidly detect potentially relevant parts of a visual scene, provides a general purpose solution for low level feature detection in a vision architecture. Well consider ...

2007

Structural changes to the fusiform gyrus: A cerebral marker for social impairments in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome?

Marie Schaer

Identifying the neural underpinnings of socio-emotional deficits in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) may elucidate recurrent psychosis in affected individuals. In the current study, we investigate volumetric changes in 22q11DS to the fusiform gyrus (FG) ...

2007

Confidence-based Cue Integration for Visual Place Recognition

Barbara Caputo

A distinctive feature of intelligent systems is their capability to analyze their level of expertise for a give task; in other words, they know what they know. As a way towards this ambitious goal, this paper presents an algorithm for recognition able to m ...

IDIAP2007

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