BVI Seminar: Diverted by dazzle: testing the ‘motion dazzle’ hypothesis.

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Anna Hughes, University College London Abstract: `Motion dazzle' is the hypothesis that certain types of patterns, such as high contrast stripes and zigzags, can cause misperceptions in the speed and direction perception of moving targets. Motion dazzle is relevant to both ecological questions, including why striped patterning may have evolved in animals such as zebras, […]

BVI Seminar: Eye Movements in Low and Normally Sighted Vision

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Brian Sullivan, University of Bristol, School of Experimental Psychology  I will present two studies examining human eye movements and discuss my role at the University of Bristol. The first study concerns patients […]

BVISS: Augmenting vision, the easy and the hard way

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Dr Stephen Hicks - Oxford University - Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Visual Prosthetics, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Mobile computing, augmented reality, deep learning. Consumer-grade devices are coming of […]

BVISS: Pattern Recognition without Features or Training

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Professor Fred Stentiford - UCL Pattern recognition is usually implemented through the use of a selected set of plausible features that characterise the data being studied. In addition it is […]

BVISS: Learning to synthesize signals and images

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Dr Sotirios Tsaftaris - School of Engineering, Edinburgh University Abstract:   An increasing population and climate change put pressure on several societally important domains. Health costs are increasing and at the same […]

BVISS: Action localization without spatiotemporal supervision

Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

Dr Cees Snoek - Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam Abstract Understanding what activity is happening where and when in video content is crucial for video computing, communication and intelligence. In the literature, the […]

FUTURES SHOWCASE: UP LATE AT SS GREAT BRITAIN

SS Great Britain Great Western Dockyard, Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

          Join us for a family-friendly late opening on the grounds of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s historic ship, the SS Great Britain. Explore a huge range of […]