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Optogenetics is a recent breakthrough in neuroscience, and one of the most promising applications is the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases. Multiple clinical trials are currently ongoing, less than a decade after the first attempt at visual...

Urbanization poses mental health risks for urban dwellers, whereas natural environments offer mental health benefits by providing restorative experiences through visual stimuli. While urban waterfront spaces are recognized for their mental restorativ...

Due to rapid urbanization over the past five decades, there has been growing interest in the role of biodiversity in supporting human well-being. While previous research highlights the role of landscape biodiversity in psychological restoration, the...

Urban green spaces are essential for promoting human health and well-being, especially in cities facing increasing noise pollution and ecological stress. This study investigates the effects of audio-visual interaction on restorative outcomes across t...

The natural environment has been widely recognized as an important way of alleviating mental disorders. While a growing number of studies have discussed the restorative effect of the natural environment, the role of sounds in the natural environment...

Optimizing the visual, thermal, and acoustic environments of urban public spaces in severely cold regions can significantly enhance the psychological restoration of the elderly, addressing the increasing mental health demands in an aging society. Des...

Restorative environments are known as places where human stress can be decreased through restoration of depleted psychological resources. Since the efficiency of natural environments in restoration is supported by the literature, designing a restorat...

Dunhuang murals are an important part of human cultural heritage with extraordinary literary and historical value. However, with the influences of time and the environment, many murals have suffered large defects and require complete reconstructions...

This study investigates the psychological restorative benefits of indoor vertical greenery and its relationship with visual satisfaction. Taking the Solar Decathlon China 2018 champion project “LONG-PLAN” as the experimental field, we con...

This study examined the acceptability of different silvicultural treatments to restore pine barrens, an open, fire-dependent forest landscape type globally imperiled across the northern Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. In an online...

Coral reef degradation has spurred the development of artificial structures to mitigate losses in coral cover. These structures serve as substrates for coral transplantation, with the expectation that growing corals will attract reef-associated taxa&...

Changing the spatial luminance distribution patterns has the potential to improve the restorative potential of indoor environments through spatial visual perception intervention, which is helpful to meet our growing need for psychological restoration...

Urban green space is believed as a beneficial landscape for mental restoration in the urban settings. This study aims to examine the restorative quality of the urban green space from a multi-sensory perspective, focusing on both direct and indirect c...

Urban schoolyard environments are increasingly characterized by a proliferation of hard surfaces with little if any greenery. Schoolyard “greening” initiatives are becoming increasingly popular; however, schoolyard designs often fail to realize their...

Retinal prostheses are implantable devices that aim to restore the vision of blind patients suffering from retinal degeneration, mainly by artificially stimulating the remaining retinal neurons. Some retinal prostheses have successfully reached the s...

The optic nerve is the second cranial nerve (CN II) that connects and transmits visual information between the retina and the brain. Severe damage to the optic nerve often leads to distorted vision, vision loss, and even blindness. Such damage can be...

Audiovisual speech perception includes the simultaneous processing of auditory and visual speech. Deficits in audiovisual speech perception are reported in autistic individuals; however, less is known regarding audiovisual speech perception within th...

Ecological restoration, as a vital means of effectively enhancing the carbon sink function of ecosystems, is currently the subject of active research by scientists. Researchers are actively exploring how to scientifically assess the response mechanis...

This study investigated the physiological and psychological therapeutic effects of a digital Shinrin-yoku environment constructed indoors in an urban facility as well as the characteristics of the environment that contribute to restorativeness (resto...

Underwater image restoration is a challenging problem because light is attenuated by absorption and scattering in water, which can degrade the underwater image. To restore the underwater image and improve its contrast and color saturation, a novel al...

Hardwood is widely used in the surface decoration of furniture and wood products due to its rich texture and durable surface, and the improvement of wood grain images is vital to promote the aesthetics of wood surfaces. In order to restore the Gaussi...

Human health is closely related to the environment; a relaxing and pleasant landscape environment can make people feel less stressed and more energetic. To investigate the restorative potential of landscape types and landscape elements in the post-ep...

Because soundscapes affect human health and comfort, methodologies for evaluating them through physiological responses have attracted considerable attention. In this study, we proposed a novel method for evaluating visual attention by using eye-track...

The beautiful, natural environment in a tourist hotel’s marketing images can evoke relaxing and soothing emotions. However, can tourist hotels use nature as a servicescape to make their performing arts services more attractive? Based on attention res...

This work proposes a change-based segmentation method for applications to cultural heritage (CH) imaging to perform monitoring and assess changes at each surface point. It can be used as a support or component of the 3D sensors to analyze surface geo...

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) models have varied applications and represent a cutting-edge branch of study, whose systems such as MediaPipe (MP), OpenPose (OP), and AlphaPose (ALP) show marked success. One of these areas, however, that is inadequately...

Ultrasound is an emerging method for non-invasive neuromodulation. Studies in the past have demonstrated that ultrasound can reversibly activate and inhibit neural activities in the brain. Recent research shows the possibility of using ultrasound ran...

Multisensory integration is fundamental for coherent perception and interaction with the environment. While cortical mechanisms of multisensory convergence are well studied, emerging evidence implicates specialized retinal ganglion cells—partic...

Road traffic noise is responsible for several negative health effects for citizens in modern cities. Inside urban parks, which citizens use for social inclusion and cohesion, psychological and physical restoration, and physical activities, road traff...

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in numerous computer vision tasks. However, recent research reveals that deep neural networks are vulnerable to natural perturbations from poor visibility conditions, limiting their practical applications...

Modern Earth observation combines high spatial resolution, wide swath, and dense temporal sampling, producing image grids and sequences far beyond the regime of standard vision benchmarks. Convolutional networks remain strong baselines but struggle t...

Visual impairment impacts nearly half a billion people globally. Corrective glasses, artificial lens replacement, and medical management have markedly improved the management of diseases inherent to the eye, such as refractive errors, cataracts, and...

The traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are based on the strong static assumption, and their performance will degrade significantly due to the presence of dynamic objects located in dynamic environments. To decrease the e...

Reliable visual monitoring is essential for industrial quality control systems under adverse weather conditions. Rain-induced degradation, such as occlusions, texture blurring, and depth distortions, can significantly hinder image clarity and comprom...

The virtual modification of the appearance of an object using lighting technologies has become very important in recent years, since the projection of light on an object allows us to alter its appearance in a virtual and reversible way. Considering t...

Today, the practice of making digital replicas of artworks and restoring and recontextualizing them within artificial simulations is widespread in the virtual heritage domain. Virtual reconstructions have achieved results of great realistic and aesth...

The key focus of this paper is to establish a procedure that combines the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing in order to achieve simulation and modeling of the landscape impact caused by construction. The procedure shoul...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of visual loss and dysfunction worldwide, is a disease initiated by genetic polymorphisms that impair the negative regulation of complement. Proteomic investigation points to altered glycosylati...

Ecological restoration and brownfield reuse are important issues in the current field of urban sustainable development and environmental protection. This paper adopts bibliometric and network analysis methods, using more than 600 literature from Web...

In this paper, we propose several methods to improve the performance of multiple object tracking (MOT), especially for humans, in dynamic environments such as robots and autonomous vehicles. The first method is to restore and re-detect unreliable res...

University students face rising mental health pressures, making restorative environmental perception (REP) in campus forests critical for psychological recovery. While environmental factors are recognized contributors, Socio-Ecological Systems (SES)...

Argus II retinal prosthesis is the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medical device intended to restore sight to a patient’s blind secondary to retinal degeneration (i.e., retinitis pigmentosa). However, Argus II and most reported...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the physiological recovery effects of olfactory, visual and olfactory–visual stimuli associated with garden plants. In a randomized controlled study design, ninety-five Chinese university students we...

The need to digitize data as an analysis tool is increasingly a topical issue, also because it is a tool of common interest for several disciplines. This new research merges with the iNEST project (Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem), refer...

To enhance the crypticity and operational efficiency of unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) charging, we propose an automatic alignment method for an underwater charging platform based on monocular vision recognition. This method accurately identifies...

Restoring campus pedestrian spaces is vital for enhancing college students’ mental well-being. This study objectively and thoroughly proposed a reference for the optimization of restorative campus pedestrian spaces that are conducive to the men...

Aiming at the problem that dynamic targets in indoor environments lead to low accuracy and large errors in the localization and position estimation of visual SLAM systems and the inability to build maps containing semantic information, a semantic vis...

Artificial coastal structures, such as seawalls, breakwaters, and groins, can exert various impacts on the fish communities in the nearby regions. This study focuses on assessing the ecological effects of coastal infrastructure on marine environments...

This article concerns the improvement of digital image quality using mathematical tools such as nonlinear partial differential operators. In this paper, to perform smoothing on digital images, we propose to use the p(x)-Laplacian operator. Its smooth...

Electrophysiological studies reveal significant organizational and functional differences in the cortex of blind individuals compared to sighted individuals. These differences result from the nervous system’s reorganization to adapt to new sens...