SKERI Postdoc Haydée García-Lázaro receives the Elsevier Vision Research Travel Award
Congratulations to Haydée García-Lázaro for receiving the Elsevier Vision Research Travel Award to attend the VSS Conference.
Congratulations to Haydée García-Lázaro for receiving the Elsevier Vision Research Travel Award to attend the VSS Conference.
I will describe our research into a surprising visual illusion in which humans misperceive the shape of a highly familiar object in a highly familiar context: their own mobile phone while they hold it…
Unilateral amblyopia, a leading cause of childhood vision loss, demands early intervention for optimal treatment outcomes. Unfortunately, accurate screening tools specifically designed for…
On January 22, 2024 Dr. Lora Likova chaired an interdisciplinary art/science symposium at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) meeting in Burlingame, CA.
Sponsored by The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI) & the CPMC Dept. of Ophthalmology Hosted by Don Fletcher, Ron Cole, Gus Colenbrander, Tiffany Chan, and Annemarie Rossi The meeting…
The efficacy of visual prostheses in object recognition is limited. While various limitations exist, here we focus on reducing the impact of background clutter on object recognition. We have proposed…
Walking, a fundamental human activity, presents challenges to visual stability due to motion blur induced by eye movements. The goal of my research is to elucidate the intricate relationship between…
Independent wayfinding is a major challenge for blind and visually impaired (BVI) travelers. I describe recent work on improvements to real-time object recognition algorithms that will be used to…
Dr. William (Bill) Good is this year's recipient of the 2023 Parks Lecture Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), cosponsored by the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS). On Sunday, November 5, Dr. Good will deliver the Marshall Parks Lecture at the annual meeting of the AAO, one of the Academy's highest honors.
YouDescribeX (the X is for eXtra eXperimental). In this revised audio description tool for YouTube viewers can request AI described videos in addition to putting videos on the wishlist, the wishlist…