Peli Eli, Woods Russell L
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, 20 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Int J Artif Intell Tools. 2009 Jun;18(3):415-438. doi: 10.1142/S0218213009000214.
With the aging of the population, the prevalence of eye diseases and thus of vision impairment is increasing. The TV watching habits of people with vision impairments are comparable to normally sighted people1, however their vision loss prevents them from fully benefiting from this medium. For over 20 years we have been developing video image-enhancement techniques designed to assist people with visual impairments, particularly those due to central retinal vision loss. A major difficulty in this endeavor is the lack of evaluation techniques to assess and compare the effectiveness of various enhancement methods. This paper reviews our approaches to image enhancement and the results we have obtained, with special emphasis on the difficulties encountered in the evaluation of the benefits of enhancement and the solutions we have developed to date.
随着人口老龄化,眼病以及视力损害的患病率正在上升。视力受损者的看电视习惯与视力正常者相当,然而他们的视力丧失使他们无法充分受益于这一媒介。20多年来,我们一直在开发视频图像增强技术,旨在帮助视力受损者,特别是那些因视网膜中央视力丧失而受损的人。这项工作的一个主要困难是缺乏评估技术来评估和比较各种增强方法的有效性。本文回顾了我们的图像增强方法以及所取得的成果,特别强调了在评估增强效果时遇到的困难以及我们迄今开发的解决方案。