Toward long-term communication with the brain in the blind by intracortical stimulation: challenges and future prospects

E Fernández, A Alfaro, P González-López - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The restoration of a useful visual sense in a profoundly blind person by direct electrical
stimulation of the visual cortex has been a subject of study for many years. However, the …

Advances in neuroscience, not devices, will determine the effectiveness of visual prostheses

B Abbasi, JF Rizzo - Seminars in Ophthalmology, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background: Innovations in engineering and neuroscience have enabled the development
of sophisticated visual prosthetic devices. In clinical trials, these devices have provided …

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 …

Multi-label affordance map** from egocentric vision

L Mur-Labadia, JJ Guerrero… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Accurate affordance detection and segmentation with pixel precision is an important piece in
many complex systems based on interactions, such as robots and assitive devices. We …

Neurolight: A deep learning neural interface for cortical visual prostheses

A Lozano, JS Suárez, C Soto-Sánchez… - … journal of neural …, 2020‏ - World Scientific
Visual neuroprosthesis, that provide electrical stimulation along several sites of the human
visual system, constitute a potential tool for vision restoration for the blind. Scientific and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end optimization of prosthetic vision

JR van Steveninck, U Güçlü, R van Wezel… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - tvst.arvojournals.org
Neural prosthetics may provide a promising solution to restore visual perception in some
forms of blindness. The restored prosthetic percept is rudimentary compared to normal …

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 …

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 …

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 …