Physiologically inspired robust electro-optical autofocals (TRA (T01*))

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: from 2021 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 276693517

After the age of 40, every human being experiences presbyopia, caused by the stiffening of the eye lens, resulting in the incapability of focusing on near objects. As a consequence, and due to an aging world population, an estimated number of 1.8 billion people suffers from blurred near vision. The transfer project focuses on autofocals, where a reliable and fast estimator of an object of interest and its distance based on physiological information represents the missing puzzle piece to market success. Building on the findings of the CRC and the expertise of its members, the transfer project will generate a dynamic spectacle prototype changing dioptric power properties at the needs of the wearer’s visual system.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres (Transfer Project)
• Subproject of: SFB 1233: Robust Vision - Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Business and Industry: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH; Dr. Katarina Rifai
• Project Head: Dr. Siegfried Wahl