Vision and Color Summer Data Blast

You are invited to join the Optica Vision and Color Technical Division for their annual summer data blast! Each session will be hosted by one of our division’s technical groups and feature short talks related to their area of the field. The sessions will include a lot of time for questions and discussion following the talks.

This week's session, hosted by the Clinical Vision Sciences Technical Group, focuses on applications of artificial intelligence for low vision and blindness. The session will feature the following talks:

• Spatial Remapping of Text for Patients with Central Vision Loss and its Optimization presented by Colin Flowers, University of Minnesota
• Localize and Edit: Privacy Preservation for Blind and Low Vision presented by Yu-Yun (Everley) Tseng, University of Colorado
• VI-OCR: A "Visually Impaired" Character Recognition Model for Automatic Text Accessibility Assessment presented by Qingying Gao, Johns Hopkins University
• AI-assisted indoor wayfinding for visually impaired persons presented by Jun Yu, Lehigh University
• Generative AI and Low Vision VR Rehab presented by Xiaoyan Zhou, NJ Institute of Technology
• An investigation into a non-visual digital geographic map viewer and editor presented by Brandon Biggs, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
• Can ChatGPT work as a virtual assistant for visually impaired people in micro-navigation tasks presented by Junxian He, Schepens Eye Institute
• Contextually-Aware Navigation Framework for Visual Prosthesis Users presented by Nicolas Norena Acosta, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
• Using natural language processing to link patients' narratives to visual capabilities and sentiments presented by Dongcheng He, University of California, Berkeley
• Empowering low vision people using eye-tracking and AI presented by Ru Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Virtual Assistants for the Visually Impaired: Custom Wearables and AI-Solutions presented by Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, NYU Langone Health
• AI Integration in Eye Care: From Smartphone Imaging to Cataract Diagnosis presented by Ji Young Byun, Johns Hopkins University

Our moderators for this session will be Arathy Kartha and Yingzi Xiong.