SymbolSight: Minimizing Inter-Symbol Interference for Reading with Prosthetic Vision

ArXi:2601.17326v2 Announce Type: replace Retinal prostheses re limited visual perception, but low spatial resolution and temporal persistence make reading difficult. In sequential letter presentation, the afterimage of one symbol can interfere with perception of the next, leading to systematic recognition errors. Rather than relying on future hardware improvements, we investigate whether optimizing the visual symbols themselves can mitigate this temporal interference.