Support for Color Vision Deficiency using Optical See-Through HMD

Abstract

250 million people in the world are suffering from Color Vision Deficiency(CVD). CVD causes troubles for job selection and communication in daily life. Most cases of CVD are caused by genetics, and currently no effective treatment has been established. In this study, we propose to support CVD people with See-Through Head-Mounted Display(OST-HMD). The images captured by an outward camera installed on the OST-HMD are processed to generate images for compensating the formation loss caused by CVD. CVD users can achieve better discrimination over scenes by superimposing the displayed compensation images over the real world scenes. In this paper, we introduce the implementation results using daltonization method for generating compensation images and discuss about the future challenges of the project.