Training-Free Stimulus Encoding for Retinal Implants via Sparse Projected Gradient Descent
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| author | Konermann, Henning Wu, Yuli Mededovic, Emil Schulz, Volkmar Walter, Peter Stegmaier, Johannes |
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| contents | Retinal implants aim to restore functional vision despite photoreceptor degeneration, yet are fundamentally constrained by low resolution electrode arrays and patient-specific perceptual distortions. Most deployed encoders rely on task-agnostic downsampling and linear brightness-to-amplitude mappings, which are suboptimal under realistic perceptual models. While global inverse problems have been formulated as neural networks, such approaches can be fast at inference, and can achieve high reconstruction fidelity, but require training and have limited generalizability to arbitrary inputs. We cast stimulus encoding as a constrained sparse least-squares problem under a linearized perceptual forward model. Our key observation is that the resulting perception matrix can be highly sparse, depending on patient and implant configuration. Building on this, we apply an efficient projected residual norm steepest descent solver that exploits sparsity and supports stimulus bounds via projection. In silico experiments across four simulated patients and implant resolutions from $15\times15$ to $100\times100$ electrodes demonstrate improved reconstruction fidelity, with up to $+0.265$ SSIM increase, $+12.4\,\mathrm{dB}$ PSNR, and $81.4\%$ MAE reduction on Fashion-MNIST compared to Lanczos downsampling. |
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| spellingShingle | Training-Free Stimulus Encoding for Retinal Implants via Sparse Projected Gradient Descent Konermann, Henning Wu, Yuli Mededovic, Emil Schulz, Volkmar Walter, Peter Stegmaier, Johannes Image and Video Processing Retinal implants aim to restore functional vision despite photoreceptor degeneration, yet are fundamentally constrained by low resolution electrode arrays and patient-specific perceptual distortions. Most deployed encoders rely on task-agnostic downsampling and linear brightness-to-amplitude mappings, which are suboptimal under realistic perceptual models. While global inverse problems have been formulated as neural networks, such approaches can be fast at inference, and can achieve high reconstruction fidelity, but require training and have limited generalizability to arbitrary inputs. We cast stimulus encoding as a constrained sparse least-squares problem under a linearized perceptual forward model. Our key observation is that the resulting perception matrix can be highly sparse, depending on patient and implant configuration. Building on this, we apply an efficient projected residual norm steepest descent solver that exploits sparsity and supports stimulus bounds via projection. In silico experiments across four simulated patients and implant resolutions from $15\times15$ to $100\times100$ electrodes demonstrate improved reconstruction fidelity, with up to $+0.265$ SSIM increase, $+12.4\,\mathrm{dB}$ PSNR, and $81.4\%$ MAE reduction on Fashion-MNIST compared to Lanczos downsampling. |
| title | Training-Free Stimulus Encoding for Retinal Implants via Sparse Projected Gradient Descent |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10906 |