• BVI Seminar: Visual concealment as foreign policy: camouflage as signaling friends and foes.

    Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

     László Tálas, Camo Lab, University of Bristol Abstract: Why do armies operating in the same environment (e.g. temperate woodland) wear markedly different dress? The primary function of military camouflage is generally understood to be concealment, however the vast diversity of camouflage patterns (over 600 patterns in the past century) suggests additional design factors. One hypothesis is […]

  • 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 […]