Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
News Feed
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...
doi.org
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
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/
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
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: