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Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
30 Mar 1641461835789398017

Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour! We know that. But what exactly is the problem and how can it be fixed properly? Here is my own approach, framed as a TICS Science & Society mini paper. @vistayorku @YUResearch @CentreforVisio1 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gqiY4sIRvPMgd

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
19 Feb 1627374174904754178

How to turn speech into full body animation: Saeed’s paper now appeared in Computer Graphics Forum. @SaGhorbani
@UbisoftLaForge
@YUResearch
@vistayorku
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14734

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
11 Feb 1624430108785225729

New review on an ongoing topic: Life Detection from Biological Motion. We haven’t contributed a lot lately, but many other labs have. Here, @NTroje and Dorita Chang provide an update on what's new and exciting. @vistayork @YUResearch @CentreforVisio1
https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221128252

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
27 Nov 1596979307859292161

This is what @biomotionlab grad student @SaGhorbani worked on during his internship with @Ubisoft. Nice feature @twominutepapers @YorkUScience @vistayorku

Two Minute Papers@twominutepapers

New Video - Ubisoft’s New AI: Breathing Life Into Games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0cA2phKfU

#ai #gaming

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
19 Oct 1582769511559704576


MIT News features a study that resulted from collaboration between @BioMotionLab and @projectprakash

After a lifetime of blindness, newly sighted can immediately identify human locomotion

Researchers find blind patients who had very limited visual exposure to human bodily movement could immediately recognize human locomotion after the r...

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
19 Oct 1582657343254593536

Congratulations, Saeed. I am glad your work gains so much visibility. @vistayorku

Congratulations, Saeed. I am glad your work gains so much visibility. @vistayorku
Life at Ubisoft@LifeatUbisoft

Check out 'ZeroEGGS' which takes recorded speech and creates gestural movement to match, powered by the brains and research of our teams at @UbisoftLaForge!

Want to play around? It's open source and we'd love to see your results!

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJPdTtVrxHo

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
25 Sep 1573876855014400000

A number of international collaborations have recently resulted in new publications @biomotionlab, @vistayork, @YUResearch:

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
24 Sep 1573700495373385729

This post features the work of @BioMotionLab graduate student Saeed Ghorbani @SaGhorbani who did an internship with @Ubisoft as a grad student and was then promoted to become an R&D Scientist with @UbisoftToronto. Congratulations, Saeed!

La Forge@UbisoftLaForge

How to translate Speech to Gesture... with style ?
Check out our open source model & data, our demo and paper about Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech. 👇

Repo: https://github.com/ubisoft/ubisoft-laforge-ZeroEGGS

Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07556

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJPdTtVrxHo&ab_channel=UbisoftLaForge

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
24 Sep 1573698933737529345

Ashley was also a graduate students in the @BioMotionLab. It is sad, that she leaves physically, but she will remain a much appreciated member of the lab until she defends her thesis later this year. We'll miss you, Ashley.

Ashley was also a graduate students in the @BioMotionLab. It is sad, that she leaves physically, but she will remain a much appreciated member of the lab until she defends her thesis later this year. We'll miss you, Ashley.
Ashley was also a graduate students in the @BioMotionLab. It is sad, that she leaves physically, but she will remain a much appreciated member of the lab until she defends her thesis later this year. We'll miss you, Ashley.
Caitlin M VISTA@VistaCaitlin

Saying goodbye to our outgoing CVR trainee rep Ashley Funkhouser! Good luck back in Mississippi! @CentreforVisio1

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VistaCaitlin avatarCaitlin M VISTA@VistaCaitlin·
14 May 1525570322040225792

VISTA core member @NTroje presenting his innovative work on the “Alberti Frame” in his talk, Mug shots: Systematic biases in the perception of facial orientation. Come check out his demo on @VSSMtg Demo Night and say hi to me on the other end of the frame! 👋 🖼 @BioMotionLab

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
2 Dec 2021 1466402647297216512

Thanks to @r2rnow for giving me the opportunity to think about my motivations and inspirations.

Thanks to @r2rnow for giving me the opportunity to think about my motivations and inspirations.
Research2Reality@r2rnow

ICYMI "My education will never be complete. Most professions come with some aspect of lifelong learning, but being a researcher means learning itself is the goal and not just a vehicle to reach some other goal." https://research2reality.com/york-university/nikolaus-troje-meet-researcher-biology/ #meettheresearcher @YUResearch @vistayorku

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r2rnow avatarResearch2Reality@r2rnow·
23 Nov 2021 1463258806893244425

ICYMI Renaissance architect and mathematician Leon Battista Alberti believed paintings should recreate exactly the view seen through an empty frame. What does this concept have to do with virtual reality? https://research2reality.com/health-medicine/alberti-frame-video-virtual-reality-vision-research/ @YorkUnews @BioMotionLab @YorkUScience @vistayorku

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
7 Jul 2021 1412836630075953159

Is cybersickness caused by sensory mismatch? In a new BioMotionLab paper, @SiaEftekharifar shows that motion parallax and stereopsis are both contributing, and that mismatches between the two depth cues do not. @vistayorku @YUResearch @YorkUScience

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The role of binocular disparity and active motion parallax in cybersickness

Cybersickness is an enduring problem for users of virtual environments. While it is generally assumed that cybersickness is caused by discrepancies in...

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
15 Jun 2021 1404805996258672653

R2R produced a well crafted feature on one of our current lines of research -- a new visual telecommunication system that we developed to study the dynamics of eye and head gaze during video communication. @vistayorku @YUResearch @YorkUScience

R2R produced a well crafted feature on one of our current lines of research -- a new visual telecommunication system that we developed to study the dynamics of eye and head gaze during video communication. @vistayorku @YUResearch @YorkUScience
Research2Reality@r2rnow

{New video} For all the good that tools like Zoom and Skype have done, we miss something fundamental when using them. Can it be replicated? https://research2reality.com/health-medicine/video-conferencing-zoom-skype-facial-recognition-pandemic-communication/ @York University @YorkUnews @BioMotionLab @YUResearch @jeff_schall @NTroje @J_D_Crawford @yorkuniversity @vistayorku

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vistayorku avatarVISTA @ YorkU@vistayorku·
14 Jun 2021 1404432362033799170

The Virtual Vision Futures conference kicked off this morning with open remarks from @Henrique5Denise and the first presentation from VISTA trainee @rqgastrock on 'Using a mirror reversal task to investigate de novo learning and distinguish it from motor adaptation'!
#YorkU

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CentreforVisio1 avatarCentre for Vision Research@CentreforVisio1·
8 Jun 2021 1402335428603170825

Join us for the upcoming Virtual Vision Futures Conference (June 14 - 17, 2021) for three days of great talks and workshops. More details: https://www.yorku.ca/cvr/virtual-vision-futures-conference/

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r2rnow avatarResearch2Reality@r2rnow·
18 May 2021 1394679390110371840

{New video} What would happen if you could actually upload expertise from a person directly into a machine? https://research2reality.com/health-medicine/vision-science-neuroscience-vista-york-university-research/ @YorkUnews @NTroje @YorkMRIfacility @yorkuniversity @vistayorku @Sergio_lab_York @BioMotionLab @YUResearch

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vistayorku avatarVISTA @ YorkU@vistayorku·
7 May 2021 1390669065514102791

Compelling research by VISTA trainee @AnneThaler_ and Core member @NTroje looked at how sex-specific differences in walking style relate to the perceived attractiveness and confidence of male and female virtual characters. http://bit.ly/2Q0cD2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rns_E8WVuIU

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
2 Apr 2021 1378060456116563971

Adam Bebko and Anne Thaler gave a very well crafted tutorial on bmlTUX today @IEEEVR conference. If you missed it, check out the recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-1dh_U5RcKw. Starts at -4:56. @vistayorku @YorkUScience

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
29 Mar 2021 1376528233936609280

BioMotionLab is employing. We are looking for a full time developer with experience in both Unity and iOS development, particularly ARKit. If you are @IEEEVR this week, feel free to talk to Niko Troje, Adam Bebko or Anne Thaler. Or just check out https://www.biomotionlab.ca/join/

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
28 Mar 2021 1376202311173804035

BML members Adam Bebko and Anne Thaler are presenting new tools @IEEEVR. Here is the teaser for tomorrow's presentation on a tool that animates AMASS data in Unity. Poster session starts at 10am EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyAHu2ow08
@vistayorku, @YorkUScience

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
24 Feb 2021 1364653465113346049

Sia Eftekharifar just defended his PhD thesis on the role of motion parallax and binocular disparity on
presence, cybersickness, and restoration in VR. New papers coming soon. Congratulations @SiaEftekharifar.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
25 Oct 2020 1320179724610621440

Biological motion processing is impressively resilient to aberrant early visual experience, according to a very successful collaboration between the BioMotionLab and Brigitte Röder's research group at University of Hamburg. @vistayorku @YorkUScience @unihh
https://www.eneuro.org/content/eneuro/early/2020/10/15/ENEURO.0534-19.2020.full.pdf

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
2 Oct 2020 1311843672481292289

As the new term has started there are new students, too: Andres and Romina are new 4th year honours thesis students, Ashley joins as MSc candidate, Viswajit who's been with us as an RA is now also an MSc student. Welcome all! @vistayorku @YorkUScience

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
1 Oct 2020 1311689782234406913

BML graduate student Saeed Ghorbani leads publication of new method for realistic human motion modelling with natural variation to be used for crowd animation and other applications. Paper will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH/EG SCA @vistayorku @YorkUScience http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf14116

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
4 Aug 2020 1290678874670608385

In a very successful collaboration with G. Ross and R. Graham's group @uOttawa we are using linear acceleration and angular velocity of simple movements to discriminate between expert and novice athletes at accuracies >80%. @vistayorku @YorkUScience

Classifying Elite From Novice Athletes Using Simulated Wearable Sensor Data

Movement screens are frequently used to identify differences in movement patterns such as pathological abnormalities or skill related differences in s...

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
21 Jul 2020 1285651527957389318

Another new paper from BML: Those who look down a virtual cliff in #VR know that they are perfectly safe. Yet, their body responds with real fear. Sia Eftekharifar investigates what drives that response. @vistayorku, @YorkUScience @CentreforVisio1 @Sia_Eft
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ist/jpi/pre-prints/content-jpi_0129

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
17 Jul 2020 1284142210871681024

New paper! Our toolbox that turns Unity into a tool to design and execute factorial, trial-based experiments in Unity3D just appeared as a journal article in i-Perception. Congratulations to Adam Bebko!
@vistayorku, @YorkUScience, @PerceptionSAGE, @unity3d https://www.biomotionlab.ca/tux/

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
24 Jun 2020 1275850125261320196

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 . @vistayorku, @YorkUScience, @InnovationYork

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
19 Jun 2020 1274075535967166476

We'll keep it up!

We'll keep it up!
VISTA @ YorkU@vistayorku

Are you attending this year's Virtual VSS 2020? Mark your calendars to join our Canadian Vision Social event open to any VSS member who is, knows, or would like to meet a Canadian Vision Scientist! Tune in this June 23 @ 8:00 pm (EDT)https://bit.ly/2AqbPvw @VSSMtg #visionscience

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
17 Jun 2020 1273329572256374785

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".

Michael Black@Michael_J_Black

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

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
15 May 2020 1261379975321534467

. @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.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
12 May 2020 1260010057778880512

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/

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13 Apr 2020 1249829762333323266

https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2764419
Cover story of the current @ARVOJOV issue: Using a new tool developed @BioMotionLab, we work with a magic frame that behaves like a picture or a window to study perception of pictures vs perception in the world. @jlugiessen, @YUResearch, @vistayorku

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DougSaunders avatarDoug Saunders@DougSaunders·
10 Apr 2020 1248710159268003840

Here's my column on parks as the fulcrum points in the "constant, experimental push-pull between social norms and legal restrictions, trust and compulsion, freedom and constraint" -- and the pandemic-fighting importance of keeping them open.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
30 Mar 2020 1244466572741271552

BMLmovi, a new database from @BioMotionLab with 9h mocap + 17h synchronized and calibrated video + 7h of IMU + MoSh reconstructed body shape is now up on Dataverse. Help yourself and go nuts. @dataverseorg @YorkUScience @yorkuniversity @vistayorku
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/MoVi

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
26 Mar 2020 1243276547395588107

And here Michael looking at the big screen in the main conference hall of @IEEEVR https://twitter.com/AnneThaler_/status/1243275642906574848

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
26 Mar 2020 1243274772471066625

Last day of the virtual @IEEEVR meeting. Michael Xiaoye Wang's avatar is looking at Anne Thaler's poster. Amazing how the conference organizers switched from real to virtual with just two week's notice. Anne's and Michael's papers are here: https://www.biomotionlab.ca/publications/

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s_mckechnie avatarShannon McKechnie@s_mckechnie·
25 Mar 2020 1242831450795319296

Important: citing your work in a cancelled conference

How to create an APA Style reference for a canceled conference presentation

To help slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), officials have canceled many public events, including conferences and conventions. This has rai...

apastyle.apa.org

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
9 Mar 2020 1236808682597502979

The hand tracking is cool. We are still working on it here in the @BioMotionLab @vistayorku @YUResearch. But we are getting close.

The hand tracking is cool. We are still working on it here in the @BioMotionLab @vistayorku @YUResearch. But we are getting close.
Ewen Lavoie@EwenLavoie

I use @htcvive, @optitrack, @pupil_labs and @KraftDinner to run experiments that provide information about how touch, proprioception, and vision come together to create the feeling of being inside a body. @VR_Neuroscience @InnovationCA #IAmInnovation #Contest

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
1 Mar 2020 1234132789013991424

Here is a wonderful visual illusion that achieves what visual illusions are supposed to achieve: It challenges the trust into your very own senses.

Here is a wonderful visual illusion that achieves what visual illusions are supposed to achieve: It challenges the trust into your very own senses. Twitter feed video.
じゃがりきん@jagarikin

ついに立体的に動いて見える錯視が完成しました。
キューブが回転して見えますね?
止まっています

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
11 Feb 2020 1227350639694446599

Happy Women and Girls in Science Day #WomenInScience
https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day/

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
14 Jan 2020 1217095226164219905

Perception goes Twitter! I still consider it one of the finest journals in our field as it stays faithful to its almost 50-year old tradition to publish unconventional, creative, adventurous research.

Perception & i-Perception Journals@PerceptionSAGE

Hello world!

And hello 2020. This year Perception is 48 years old, and its open access sister journal i-Perception turns 10. For the new decade we have a shiny new Twitter account for papers, discussion & news from both journals on Special Issues, prizes, new formats, and more.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
7 Dec 2019 1203447142532177921

This is a gem! Not only will it replace how we teach high school students to solve quadratic equations, but we should also point out to them, that new, exciting discoveries may not require deep digging, but rather open eyes and a curious mind to spot them.

Nando de Freitas 🏳️‍🌈@NandoDF

A new way to make quadratic equations easy - Cool trick. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614775/a-new-way-to-make-quadratic-equations-easy/

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
7 Dec 2019 1203439220288823301

Congratulations to Johannes Kurz who collaborates with @BioMotionLab from @jlugiessen. His new paper shows how body structure helps to interpret body motion in the context of soccer penalty shooting. Ask us for a reprint, if you don't have access.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-019-01883-5

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
7 Dec 2019 1203387082951024641

Happy to have Larry Maloney here who arrived for the first of a series of visits support by a @vistayorku travel grant. He excited the students in the @BioMotionLab with his crystal clear talks and then gave another seminar to the larger CVR community.

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MPI_IS avatarIntelligent Systems@MPI_IS·
21 Nov 2019 1197437420591079425

Our sense of touch is at the center of nearly everything we do. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director of the #HapticIntelligence Department, aims to sharpen our understanding of haptic human-machine interaction. She was interviewed @IROS2019MACAU #IROS2019:

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n__ghorbani avatarNima Ghorbani@n__ghorbani·
3 Nov 2019 1190907211586949125

#iccv19 reached a productive and happy ending. many thanks to amazing colleagues @PerceivingSys, and our wonderfull coauthers for #amass.

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
31 Oct 2019 1189728896846987264

Naureen and Nima working hard to serve the crowds at @ICCV2019 today 10:30-13:00, Hall B, Poster 102. #AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture As Surface Shapes. More here:

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BioMotionLab avatarBioMotionLab@BioMotionLab·
30 Oct 2019 1189444135226200065

It was very nice to reconnect with the @PerceivingSys group at @ICCV19 in #Seoul.

It was very nice to reconnect with the @PerceivingSys group at @ICCV19 in #Seoul.
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Our first ever alumni event in #Seoul, #Korea @ICCV19! Thank you @Michael_J_Black and all the great helpers and people who make @PerceivingSys what it is - a great place with great people

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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

Network

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

  • NSERC
  • CFI
  • CIFAR

Other important affiliations include:

  • Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet)
  • Vision Science Society