Publications

2024

1. ARVO

   Creating A “Visually Impaired” Character Recognition Model for Text Accessibility Assessment

   Qingying Gao, Roberto Manduchi, Pradeep Y Ramulu, and 2 more authors

   Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2024

   Abs Bib

   Low vision individuals use their residual vision in their daily life to read text such as price tags, street signs, medicine labels. However, there is no objective tool for evaluating text accessibility for low vision. As modern Optical Character Recognition (OCR) achieves high performance in text recognition, it may be possible to develop “visually impaired” OCR (VI-OCR) to mimic low vision performance and serve as a tool for assessing text visibility. We aim to design a new framework combining OCR and human contrast sensitivity functions (CSF) to simulate the text recognition capability of low vision.

   @article{gao2024creating,
     title = {Creating A “Visually Impaired” Character Recognition Model for Text Accessibility Assessment},
     author = {Gao, Qingying and Manduchi, Roberto and Ramulu, Pradeep Y and Legge, Gordon E and Xiong, Yingzi},
     journal = {Investigative Ophthalmology \& Visual Science},
     volume = {65},
     number = {7},
     pages = {1118--1118},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology},
   }

2022

1. Journal

   Digital Reading with Low Vision: Principles for Selecting Display Size

   Ying-Zi Xiong, Nilsu Atilgan, Donald C Fletcher, and 1 more author

   Optometry and Vision Science, 2022

   Bib

   @article{xiong2022digital,
     title = {Digital Reading with Low Vision: Principles for Selecting Display Size},
     author = {Xiong, Ying-Zi and Atilgan, Nilsu and Fletcher, Donald C and Legge, Gordon E},
     journal = {Optometry and Vision Science},
     volume = {99},
     number = {8},
     pages = {655--661},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {LWW},
   }

2021

1. Journal

   Simulating visibility and reading performance in low vision

   Ying-Zi Xiong, Quan Lei, Aurlie Calabrse, and 1 more author

   Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021

   Bib

   @article{xiong2021simulating,
     title = {Simulating visibility and reading performance in low vision},
     author = {Xiong, Ying-Zi and Lei, Quan and Calabrse, Aurlie and Legge, Gordon E},
     journal = {Frontiers in Neuroscience},
     volume = {15},
     pages = {671121},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},
   }

2020

1. Journal

   Reconciling print-size and display-size constraints on reading

   Nilsu Atilgan, Ying-Zi Xiong, and Gordon E Legge

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020

   Bib

   @article{atilgan2020reconciling,
     title = {Reconciling print-size and display-size constraints on reading},
     author = {Atilgan, Nilsu and Xiong, Ying-Zi and Legge, Gordon E},
     journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
     volume = {117},
     number = {48},
     pages = {30276--30284},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {National Acad Sciences},
   }

2018

1. Journal

   Fonts designed for macular degeneration: Impact on reading

   Ying-Zi Xiong, Ethan A Lorsung, John Stephen Mansfield, and 2 more authors

   Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2018

   Bib

   @article{xiong2018fonts,
     title = {Fonts designed for macular degeneration: Impact on reading},
     author = {Xiong, Ying-Zi and Lorsung, Ethan A and Mansfield, John Stephen and Bigelow, Charles and Legge, Gordon E},
     journal = {Investigative ophthalmology \& visual science},
     volume = {59},
     number = {10},
     pages = {4182--4189},
     year = {2018},
     publisher = {The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology},
   }