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Arthur James Lowery

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Broadening Our View: Assistive Technology for Cerebral Visual Impairment

Over the past decade, considerable research has been directed towards assistive technologies to support people with vision impairments using machine learning, computer vision, image enhancement, and/or augmented/virtual reality. However, this has almost totally overlooked a growing demographic: people with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI). Unlike Ocular Vision Impairments (OVI), CVI arises from damage to the brain's visual processing centres. This paper introduces CVI and reveals a wide research gap in addressing the needs of this demographic. Through a scoping review, we identified 14 papers at the intersection of these technologies and CVI. Of these, only three papers described assistive technologies focused on people living with CVI, with the others focusing on diagnosis, understanding, simulation or rehabilitation. Our findings highlight the opportunity for the Human-Computer Interaction and Assistive Technologies research community to explore and address this underrepresented domain, thereby enhancing the quality of life for people with CVI.

cs.HC

Optical Adaptive LMS Equalizer with an Opto-electronic Feedback Loop

We propose a photonic adaptive Least-Mean-Squares equalizer with an opto-electronic feedback loop to determine the updating of an optical Finite-Impulse-Response filter's weights, enabling dispersion compensation introduced by 30-km fiber based on our photonic integrated chip.

eess.SP

Enhanced asymmetrically-clipped optical OFDM

Asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) is a technique that sacrifices spectral efficiency in order to transmit an orthogonally frequency-division multiplexed signal over a unipolar channel, such as a directly modulated direct-detection fiber or free-space channel. Several methods have been proposed to regain this spectral efficiency, including: asymmetrically clipped DC-biased optical OFDM (ADO-OFDM), enhanced U-OFDM (EU-OFDM), and spectral and energy efficient OFDM (SEE-OFDM). This paper presents a new method that offers the highest receiver sensitivity for a given optical power at spectral efficiencies above 3 bit/s/Hz, having a 7-dB sensitivity advantage over DC-biased OFDM for 1024-QAM at 87.5% of its spectral efficiency, at the same bit rate and optical power.

cs.IT