Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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Kudos to Adam Bebko. His workshop on bmlTUX, the BML Toolkit for Unity ExperimentsUnity, given at @VSSMtg drew an impressive crowd. For those who missed it, see the tutorials at https://biomotionlab.github.io/TUX/docs/firstoverview. @vistayorku, @YorkUScience, @InnovationYork
Congratulations, Michael et al. I remember this paper very well and often give it to students. Now I will also recommend MJB's notes (below) about its history. The most important message: "Do the work that you think is important and hopefully the community will agree in time".
I’m honored to share the 2020 Longuet-Higgins prize with @DeqingSun and Stefan Roth. It is given at #CVPR2020 for work from #CVPR 2010 that has withstood the test of time. I’ve written a blog post about the secrets behind “The Secrets of Optical Flow”: https://tinyurl.com/y89odrwf
. @Sia_Eft, @AnneThaler_, @SaGhorbani, @yorkuniversity, @CentreforVisio1, @vistayorku
Today's lab meeting at @BioMotionLab
with Xiaoye Michael Wang, Niko Troje, Ashley Funkhouser, Viswajet Kumar, Max Esser, Adam Bebko, Sia Eftekharifar, Anne Thaler, Saeed Ghorbani.
Using #VirtualReality in trial-based, factorial experiments in #VisionResearch can be cumbersome. In the BioMotionLab @yorkuniversity, we developed a toolbox for @unity3d that makes experimental design and execution easy and convenient. For details visit https://biomotionlab.ca/tux/
Goals
Our main research interest is focused on questions concerning the nature of perceptual representations. How can a stream of noisy nerve cell excitations possibly be turned into the coherent and predictable perception of a “reality”? We work on questions involving the processing of sensory information, perception, cognition and communication.
Topics
People perception: The biology and psychology of social recognition
- detection of animate agents
- conspecific recognition
- gender recognition
- individual recognition
- action recognition
- recognition of emotions, personality traits and intentionality
- recognition of bodies, faces, and biological motion
Vision in virtual reality
- pictorial vs physical spaces
- space perception
- simulator sickness
- perception of self-motion (vection)
- multisensory integration
- perception of the own body
- the nature of presence
Visual ambiguities and perceptual biases
- depth ambiguities
- the “facing-the-viewer” bias
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Since moving to York University in 2018, the Biomotion Lab has become an integral part of the multi-departmental Centre for Vision Research. Its main affiliation is with the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science.
Students in the Biomotion Lab come from different graduate programs:
- Biology @ YorkU
- Psychology @ YorkU
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ YorkU
- International Graduate School “The Brain in Action”
- Centre for Neuroscience Studies @ Queen’s University
Dr. Troje is a core member of the CFREF funded program “Vision: Science to Application” (VISTA). Other funding comes from
Other important affiliations include: