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With the aging of the population, the prevalence of eye diseases and thus of vision impairment is increasing. The TV watching habits of people with vision impairments are comparable to normally sighted people,¹ however their vision loss prevents them from fully benefiting from this medium. For over 20 years we have been developing video image-enhancement techniques designed to assist people with visual impairments, particularly those due to central retinal vision loss. A major difficulty in this endeavor is the lack of evaluation techniques to assess and compare the effectiveness of various enhancement methods. This paper reviews our approaches to image enhancement and the results we have obtained, with special emphasis on the difficulties encountered in the evaluation of the benefits of enhancement and the solutions we have developed to date.

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Visual accessibility appears not to be the essential priority of artists when they produce an artwork. However, they do not choose colors randomly but depending on the message they want to deliver, which can be partially or entirely misunderstood by people with vision problems. This paper proposes to study the possibility of using expressive post-processing effects which can be applied on any kind of 2D image sequence and which allow to improve image perception for many kinds of visual impairments.