Computer Sciences

Descriptive boost for visual accessibility

There are an estimated 280 million people in the world with debilitating levels of visual impairment. A new tool to empower them with a richer understanding of their surroundings is presented in the International Journal ...

Computer Sciences

VEViD: A vision enhancement algorithm based on physics

In a new paper published in eLight, a team of scientists led by Professor Bahram Jalali and graduate student Callen MacPhee from UCLA have developed a new algorithm for performing computational imaging tasks. The paper "VEViD: ...

Computer Sciences

New algorithm repairs corrupted digital images in one step

From phone camera snapshots to lifesaving medical scans, digital images play an important role in the way humans communicate information. But digital images are subject to a range of imperfections such as blurriness, grainy ...