Crowd-Sourced Description for Web-Based Video (CSD)
The Descriptive Video Exchange Project focuses on crowd-sourced techniques for describing DVD media.
Projects
CVIers Discussion Group for Parents and Older Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment
A discussion group for parents of children and parents and older children with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) supported by clinicians, researchers and teachers of the visually impaired.
Next Meeting: Monday 15 April , 2024. 12pm to 1.30pm Pacific Time
Describeathon 2019 Announced!
Join Describeathon 2019! Help make YouTube videos more accessible to blind viewers by adding your voice to this day of description.
Use YouDescribe, our free web-based description tool, to describe the visuals of your favorite YouTube videos and have fun doing it!
Descriptive Video Exchange (DVX)
This innovative technology permitted wiki-style crowd-sourcing of video description in a completely new way, opening the door to amateur description provided for any video content, and distributed to anyone without modifying or redistributing the original video in any way.
Display Reader
The goal of the Display Reader project is to develop a computer vision system that runs on smartphones and tablets to enable blind and visually impaired persons to read appliance displays. Such displays are found on an increasing array of appliances such as microwave ovens, thermostats and home medical devices.
Click here for Display Reader software download.
Door Entry
This project has developed a system to give accessibility to blind people.
Dyslexia Project
We studied the ability of dyslexic young teenagers to fluently name pictograms (shapes of objects). We found that some dyslexics are very good at this task, some were even better than the control subjects.
We also investigated whether dyslexics make instantaneous automatic adjustments of reading saccades depending on word length. We found evidence that dyslexics have the mechanisms to make such adjustments, but that they are quantitatively impaired.
References
Trauzettel-Klosinski S, MacKeben M, Reinhard J, Feucht A, Dürrwächter U & Klosinski G (2002) Pictogram naming in dyslexics and normal…
Effects of Noise Exposure Across the Lifespan on Balance and Stability in Older Adults
Falls in older adults are common, have high societal and monetary costs, often lead to injury and can even be fatal. It is known that noise can damage the vestibular periphery resulting in postural instability and compromised balance. This project investigates how natural aging is accelerated by lifetime noise exposure, and how that can lead to impaired vestibular function, contributing to propensity to fall.
Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals
The goal of the "Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals" program is to help people with visual impairments acquire advanced skills related to STEM subjects and careers. Apply to participate in the inaugural session by July 15, 2023 using the link below.
Empowering Data Vision: Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python
Call for Participation:
Second Smith-Kettlewell Summer Research Institute, “Empowering Data Vision: Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python”
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are delighted to present our second on-line course dedicated to data science for blind individuals.
Overview:
This course, “Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python,” will teach blind individuals the basics of using Python to interact with datasets. The course will be offered on…