Exploring Blur in Depth: Generating Synthetic Imagery...and Aiding Human Vision

Professor Brian A. Barsky from UC Berkeley will present an overview of his research combining computer graphics with optics, optometry, and photography.  This research has investigated mathematical models to describe the shape of the cornea and algorithms for cornea measurement, scientific and medical visualization for the display of cornea shape, mathematics and algorithms for the design and fabrication of contact lenses, simulation of vision using actual patient data measured by wavefront aberrometry, rendering algorithms for realistic depth of field, view camera simulation, and custom vision correction by computing an altered display that when viewed by the patient would appear in sharp focus for this particular individual.