Neuromorphic hardware for somatosensory neuroprostheses

E Donati, G Valle - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
In individuals with sensory-motor impairments, missing limb functions can be restored using
neuroprosthetic devices that directly interface with the nervous system. However, restoring …

Artificial intelligence techniques for retinal prostheses: A comprehensive review and future direction

C Wang, C Fang, Y Zou, J Yang… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Retinal prostheses are promising devices to restore vision for patients with severe
age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa disease. The visual processing …

Towards biologically plausible phosphene simulation for the differentiable optimization of visual cortical prostheses

M van der Grinten, JR van Steveninck, A Lozano… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Blindness affects millions of people around the world. A promising solution to restoring a
form of vision for some individuals are cortical visual prostheses, which bypass part of the …

Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges

E Borda, D Ghezzi - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Vision is an extraordinary sense through which we can appreciate the beauty of the world
we live in, gain invaluable knowledge and communicate with others using visual expression …

Hybrid neural autoencoders for stimulus encoding in visual and other sensory neuroprostheses

J Granley, L Relic, M Beyeler - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Sensory neuroprostheses are emerging as a promising technology to restore lost sensory
function or augment human capabilities. However, sensations elicited by current devices …

Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness

M Beyeler, M Sanchez-Garcia - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. How can we return a functional form of sight to people who are living with
incurable blindness? Despite recent advances in the development of visual …

Optimization of neuroprosthetic vision via end-to-end deep reinforcement learning

B Küçükoğlu, B Rueckauer, N Ahmad… - … Journal of Neural …, 2022 - World Scientific
Visual neuroprostheses are a promising approach to restore basic sight in visually impaired
people. A major challenge is to condense the sensory information contained in a complex …

[HTML][HTML] Real-world indoor mobility with simulated prosthetic vision: The benefits and feasibility of contour-based scene simplification at different phosphene …

JR van Steveninck, T van Gestel, P Koenders… - Journal of …, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Neuroprosthetic implants are a promising technology for restoring some form of vision in
people with visual impairments via electrical neurostimulation in the visual pathway …

Aligning Visual Prosthetic Development With Implantee Needs

L Nadolskis, LM Turkstra, E Larnyo… - … Vision Science & …, 2024 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose: Visual prosthetics are a promising assistive technology for vision loss, yet research
often overlooks the human aspects of this technology. While previous studies focus on the …

Beyond the cane: describing urban scenes to blind people for mobility tasks

KMP Hoogsteen, S Szpiro, G Kreiman… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Blind people face difficulties with independent mobility, impacting employment prospects,
social inclusion, and quality of life. Given the advancements in computer vision, with more …