Special issue: Low vision rehabilitation

Low Vision Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Low Vision Algorithm

This article focuses on the rehabilitation of people with low vision, concretely on people with central or multiple loss of vision, and the use of new technological devices to assist them in their daily life by improving their ability to see in a better way the world around them, either virtual or real. This particular case refers to users with impaired vision, and the use of digital image proc...

Special Issue on Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics

Assistive and rehabilitation robotics currently covers a broad spectrum of research areas, from intelligent robots that act as aides, companions and educators; to robots that provide physical assistance for mobility, manipulation and support; to embedded robotics, ambient intelligence and intelligent spaces. People whose ability to perform daily living activities is limited or inhibited by inju...

50th Anniversary special issue of vision research

The inaugural issue of Vision Research was published, with little fanfare, in June 1961 – 50 years ago. In the Preface, Thorn Shipley wrote: ‘‘The lack of a special journal in this field has been found to be increasingly awkward. Vision Research is therefore planned directly to fill this gap. However, it is not intended to encourage the isolation of the eye from the other senses, neither in its...

Vision Research special issue on “Visual attention”

This is the first of two parts of a special issue on the topic of ‘‘Visual attention’’. The second part of the special issue, which will be published shortly, will provide a thematic outline of the papers in both parts. The papers presented in this special issue are based on the Third International Workshop in Visual Attention that took place in October 2011 at the University of Allahabad in In...