Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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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
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
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/
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
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.
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
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
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
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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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
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
Other important affiliations include: