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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Spatiotemporal Pixelization to Increase the Recognition Score of Characters for Retinal Prostheses.

Hyun Seok Kim, Kwang Suk Park

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hyun Seok KimInterdisciplinary Program of Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea. khs0330kr@bmsil.snu.ac.kr.
Kwang Suk ParkDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea. pks@bmsil.snu.ac.kr.
Seoul National University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of the retinal prostheses use a head-fixed camera and a video processing unit. Some studies proposed various image processing methods to improve visual perception for patients. However, previous studies only focused on using spatial information. The present study proposes a spatiotemporal pixelization method mimicking fixational eye movements to generate stimulation images for artificial retina arrays by combining spatial and temporal information. Input images were sampled with a resolution that was four times higher than the number of pixel arrays. We subsampled this image and generated four different phosphene images. We then evaluated the recognition scores of characters by sequentially presenting phosphene images with varying pixel array sizes (6 × 6, 8 × 8 and 10 × 10) and stimulus frame rates (10 Hz, 15 Hz, 20 Hz, 30 Hz, and 60 Hz). The proposed method showed the highest recognition score at a stimulus frame rate of approximately 20 Hz. The method also significantly improved the recognition score for complex characters. This method provides a new way to increase practical resolution over restricted spatial resolution by merging the higher resolution image into high-frame time slots.

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Pattern Recognition, VisualRetinaVisual ProsthesisEye MovementsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedVision, Ocularcharacter recognitionretinal prosthesisspatiotemporalstimulus frame ratessubsampling

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PMID29073735
PMCPMC5677288
OpenAlexW2766471109

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