Title: Improving Color Discrimination for Color Vision Deficiency with Temporal-domain Modulation
Abstract: First described by Dalton in 1794, color blind deficiency (CVD) has been around for more than 20 decades. Researchers have been consistently working on developing ways to assist CVD. No treatment is currently available to cure CVD, people who suffer from this condition lost the fundamental function of the cone to encode color information in the color vision system. Due to defective or missing of cone functionality, it is also unlikely possible to add a device to replace the encoding function. However, it is possible to compensate for the color vision quality and improve the color sensitivity of those who affected. Previous works such as optical filter and recoloring method focus on optimizing the functionality of the remaining cones from CVD color vision. While these approaches reported improving color perception, they fail to address the core problem which is one color dimension is missing from CVD color vision. Contrary to previous approaches, in this study I look into a different approach to fill in the missing dimension. I investigate flicker as an alternate modality and how its response in the temporal domain affect the perception of color. I conduct an experiment to evaluate the efficiency of color and brightness modulation. The findings demonstrate the potential of flicker as an alternate modality to improve the color perception of CVD.
Language of the presentation: English