Rather than aiming to one day restore natural vision, we might be better off thinking about how to create practical and useful artificial vision now.
Apurv Varshney is currently a second-year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science degree at UC Santa Barbara. He is interested in improving Bionic Vision using Computer vision and human computer interaction (HCI) techniques.
Starting Fall ‘23, he will be a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara.
In his free time he enjoys hiking and playing Tennis.
Education
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MS in Computer Science, 2022 (expected)
University of California, Santa Barbara
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BTech (Bachelors of Technology) in Computer Science, 2020
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa
Project Lead
Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions
How do people’s navigatioal abilities change in stressful conditions? How can we best train them for these situations? And how can vision augmentation be employed to improve situational awareness?
