Blind Dogs That Can See

Blind dogs that can see: pharmacological treatment of Leber congenital amaurosis caused by a defective visual cycle.

P ETERSEN-JONES AND COLLEAGUES PERformed an important proof-of-principle study titled “Improvement of Visual Performance With Intravitreal Administration of 9-cisRetinal in Rpe65-Mutant Dogs,” published in this issue of the Archives. As a component of comprehensive preclinical studies, its primary goal was to determine the efficacy of 9-cis-retinal in restoring visual function assessed by both ...

On Virtual Characters that Can See

A virtual character (VC) acts within its virtual world boundaries, but with vision sensory capabilities, it may be expected to explore the real world and interact with the intelligent beings there. Such a VC can be equipped with algorithms to localize humans, recognize and communicate with them. These perceptual capabilities prompt a sophisticated cognitive architecture (CA), enabling our VC to...

The eyeball test: can the blind leading the blind see better than the statistician?

UFace: Your Universal Password That No One Can See

With the advantage of not having to memorize long passwords, people are more interested in adopting face authentication for use with mobile devices. However, since facial images are widely shared in social networking sites, it becomes a challenging task to securely employ face authentication for web services to prevent attackers from impersonating the legal users by using the users’ online face...

Teams can see pomsets

Strings may serve as both specifications and observations of behavior. However partial strings or pomsets, superior to strings in certain respects for the representation of concurrent behavior, are provably unobservable and hence apparently suitable only for specifying behavior. The proof however tacitly assumes that observers are isolated individuals. We show that observations by a cooperating...