Tag: Vision

What???s next for vision prosthesis?

It’s the article that rocked the bioelectronic medicine movement. “Their Bionic Eyes are Now Obsolete and Unsupported” was published by IEEE Spectrum in February 2022. The feature highlighted the many people who were left without support for their implanted devices after ...

How Oslo Reached Vision Zero

“Our main objective is to give the streets back to the people,” Hanna Marcussen, Oslo’s Vice Mayor for Urban Development told BBC Future in 2019, explaining the radical changes the city was making to local streets. Marcussen’s point was that, until recently, the people of ...

Advanced Lane Detection for Autonomous Vehicles using Computer Vision techniques

The distortion matrix was used to un-distort a calibration image and provides a demonstration that the calibration is correct. An example shown here in Fig 2, shows the before/after results after applying calibration to un-distort the chessboard image. Fig 2. Before and after results of un-di...

Seeing With Vision

Itis easy to look at the world and see only the negative. We see suffering and conflict. People agitate and disappoint us at every turn. We see ourselves as unworthy, redeemable, and undeserving of love. But what we do not understand is that we are looking through a veil — A dark and dismal...

FACET: A Benchmark Dataset for Fairness in Computer Vision

As computer vision models have rapidly improved, the problem of bias has increasingly reared its head and become increasingly pronounced: even models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on one-number metrics like mean average precision or F1 score can vary wildly in their ability to ...

Let???s Ban Vision Correction in Classrooms

I responded, “If technologies aren’t allowed to help kids read, eyeglasses and contact lenses need to be banned.” Because I simply cannot believe this debate still exists. In 2008, in perhaps the most controversial blog post I ever wrote (read the comments), I said, &l...