A Hybrid Neural Autoencoder for Sensory Neuroprostheses and Its Applications in Bionic Vision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13623v1
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 20:52:00 GMT
• Title: A Hybrid Neural Autoencoder for Sensory Neuroprostheses and Its Applications in Bionic Vision
• Authors: Jacob Granley, Lucas Relic, Michael Beyeler
• Abstract summary: Sensory neuroprostheses are emerging as a promising technology to restore lost sensory function or augment human capacities. In this paper we show how a deep neural network encoder is trained to invert a known, fixed forward model that approximates the underlying biological system. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our hybrid neural autoencoder (HNA) on the use case of visual neuroprostheses.
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• Abstract: Sensory neuroprostheses are emerging as a promising technology to restore lost sensory function or augment human capacities. However, sensations elicited by current devices often appear artificial and distorted. Although current models can often predict the neural or perceptual response to an electrical stimulus, an optimal stimulation strategy solves the inverse problem: what is the required stimulus to produce a desired response? Here we frame this as an end-to-end optimization problem, where a deep neural network encoder is trained to invert a known, fixed forward model that approximates the underlying biological system. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our hybrid neural autoencoder (HNA) on the use case of visual neuroprostheses. We found that HNA is able to produce high-fidelity stimuli from the MNIST and COCO datasets that outperform conventional encoding strategies and surrogate techniques across all tested conditions. Overall this is an important step towards the long-standing challenge of restoring high-quality vision to people living with incurable blindness and may prove a promising solution for a variety of neuroprosthetic technologies.

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