Bionic Vision Lab featured in NVIDIA’s I AM AI trailer

Simulated prosthetic vision of a street scene in three panels: a photo of a pedestrian on a crosswalk beside a car; a conventional approach rendering them as faint, indistinct blobs; and a deep learning approach rendering the pedestrian and car as brighter, distinct shapes.

Our recent research was featured in NVIDIA’s I AM AI trailer, premiered at NVIDIA GTC 2021

Research by the Bionic Vision Lab was featured in NVIDIA’s I AM AI trailer, which was premiered at NVIDIA GTC 2021:

Publications

Deep learning-based scene simplification for bionic vision Honorable Mention Best Paper AwardIn the News

We combined deep learning-based scene simplification strategies with a psychophysically validated computational model of the retina to generate realistic predictions of simulated prosthetic vision.

Nicole Han, Sudhanshu Srivastava, Aiwen Xu, Devi Klein, Michael Beyeler February 2021 ACM Augmented Humans (AHs) ‘21

Michael Beyeler

Associate Professor

Michael Beyeler is an Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Bionic Vision Lab. He studies how biological and artificial visual systems represent the world, and how those representations can be understood and engineered to restore useful vision.