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Generating electrode stimulation patterns for a simulated cortical prosthesis
Community description: A PyTorch simulator and encoder that turn an image into per-electrode currents, with threshold calibration, a current budget, and an evaluation that exposed a metric trap.
Dev.to | Oct 3, 2026 | Yuuki Yamashita
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It runs on a laptop CPU, with 100, 1,000 or 10,000 electrodes. A search over grid sizes gives exactly 100, 1,000 or 10,000 electrodes. SSIM against a blurred scene mostly rewards large regions, so a smooth percept from 100 electrodes scores well.
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