1. Yakir Dahan Vitali Sepetnitsky Royi Freifeld

2.  Project Goals  Challenges  Main Steps  Technologies  Schedule

4.  Sightless navigation by sensory substitution › Development of an application that allows a person to navigate, relying primarily on the sense of hearing  Development of spatial auditory environment  Providing a flexible testing environment for future research

6.  3D sound generation › Choosing / generating sound samples that on one hand will reveal as much information as possible about the visual objects and on the other hand will be intuitive (easily interpreted).  Image analysis › Applying a reliable object tracking mechanism

8.  Shapes detection  Objects tracking  Sounds creation (according to a 3D image)  Human subject research

10.  Image processing › OpenCV  3D sound generation and processing › Binaural spatialization using HRTF datasets › OpenAL (Creative Labs / Rapture3D) › JavaSound3D › DirectSound3D

12.  Summer 2010 – Theoretic research › Learning and testing 3D sound & image technologies  October – November › Choosing technologies › System architecture › Application Requirements Document draft  December – January 2011 › Final version of ARD › Working on prototype

13.  February – March › Final prototype › Application Design Document draft › Application development  April - May › Final version of ADD › Application testing and experiments conduction  June › Preparation to the Projects day