The center, established in collaboration with Semmelweis University, aims to support the perception of visual information for people with visual impairments and to improve their quality of life through the application of innovative technologies. As part of the Center, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory serves as the hub for machine vision and AI research and technological development. Our goal is to develop a Bionic Eyeglass that processes visual information on a small processor, replacing the function of the eye. The core focus of the fundamental research activity in the lab is the interpretation of multimodal spatiotemporal events. Processing the visual information of the world around us poses a significant challenge due to its complexity and variability, requiring the development of new methods. We design new approaches by combining prior knowledge, available sensors, and appropriate representations with tools from machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision. A key design goal is to develop for widely used, easily available, affordable everyday devices (platforms) instead of relying on expensive and complex hardware. At Cybathlon 2024, which is often called the Olympics of assistive technologies, our laboratory team achieved a world-class success by completing 7 tasks and standing out from the international field, and we won the VIS race (the category of the visually impaired). We are currently continuing to develop the functions created for the competition tasks so that they can be made available in the LetSee App as soon as possible.
