TY - GEN
T1 - Vision enhancement
T2 - 6th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2015
AU - Itoh, Yuta
AU - Klinker, Gudrun
PY - 2015/3/9
Y1 - 2015/3/9
N2 - Vision is our primary, essential sense to perceive the real world. Human beings have been keen to enhance the limit of the eye function by inventing various vision devices such as corrective glasses, sunglasses, telescopes, and night vision goggles. Recently, Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays (OST-HMD) have penetrated in the commercial market. While the traditional devices have improved our vision by altering or replacing it, OST-HMDs can augment and mediate it. We believe that future OST-HMDs will dramatically improve our vision capability, combined with wearable sensing systems including image sensors. For taking a step toward this future, this paper investigates Vision Enhancement (VE) techniques via OST-HMDs. We aim at correcting optical defects of human eyes, especially defocus, by overlaying a compensation image on the user's actual view so that the filter cancels the aberration. Our contributions are threefold. Firstly, we formulate our method by taking the optical relationships between OST-HMD and human eye into consideration. Secondly, we demonstrate the method in proof-of-concept experiments. Lastly and most importantly, we provide a thorough analysis of the results including limitations of the current system, potential research issues necessary for realizing practical VE systems, and possible solutions for the issues for future research.
AB - Vision is our primary, essential sense to perceive the real world. Human beings have been keen to enhance the limit of the eye function by inventing various vision devices such as corrective glasses, sunglasses, telescopes, and night vision goggles. Recently, Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays (OST-HMD) have penetrated in the commercial market. While the traditional devices have improved our vision by altering or replacing it, OST-HMDs can augment and mediate it. We believe that future OST-HMDs will dramatically improve our vision capability, combined with wearable sensing systems including image sensors. For taking a step toward this future, this paper investigates Vision Enhancement (VE) techniques via OST-HMDs. We aim at correcting optical defects of human eyes, especially defocus, by overlaying a compensation image on the user's actual view so that the filter cancels the aberration. Our contributions are threefold. Firstly, we formulate our method by taking the optical relationships between OST-HMD and human eye into consideration. Secondly, we demonstrate the method in proof-of-concept experiments. Lastly and most importantly, we provide a thorough analysis of the results including limitations of the current system, potential research issues necessary for realizing practical VE systems, and possible solutions for the issues for future research.
KW - Augmented Reality
KW - Head-mounted Displays
KW - Image Deblurring
KW - Near-eye Displays
KW - Optical See-through
KW - Vision Enhancement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954175470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2735711.2735787
DO - 10.1145/2735711.2735787
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84954175470
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 9 March 2015 through 11 March 2015
ER -