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The vOICe? Oh I see! Sensory substitution for the blind: vision by mental imagery. Paradigm shift pending: https://t.co/hPF5lEgwIP, feedback@seeingwithso
Mar 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#AI maps psychedelic "trip" experiences to regions of the brain – opening new route to psychiatric treatments theconversation.com/ai-maps-psyche… "psychedelics temporarily reduce top-down executive function" This suggests that deliberate/active mental imagery and involuntary/passive hallucinations may involve kind of opposite mechanisms despite both giving visuals: enhanced top-down versus disinhibited bottom-up
Mar 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
(YouTube) Mental imagery engineering: sensory substitution via soundscapes of procedurally generated images Dark gray (soft stereo panning noise) background may help with shape localization Beat blindness without surgery? Help us find out by practicing your visualization of the rectangle and line segment and tweeting about your progress over the course of weeks: how vision-like does the experience becomes over time? Practicing 15 minutes a day probably suffices
Mar 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Augmenting perception: How artificial intelligence transforms sensory substitution sciencedirect.com/science/articl… by @louislongin and @OpheliaDeroy; #AI #AR "When implementing AI methods into the classic vOICe architecture, the final auditory signal can now convey much richer and more accessible information"
Mar 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A belt-like assistive device for visually impaired people: Toward a more collaborative approach tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… "Future research endeavors in this field might be benefited from more collaborative participation between end-users, researchers, and institutes for VI people"  Front view (a) and back vi... Background section 2.1 on head-mounted assistive devices: "Based on the argument that the human brain is powerful enough to process complex auditory information, Meijer developed The vOICe system, which uses a single camera as an input source"