This VISTA Funded project studies how face perception abilities are altered by face masks. Face masks are an essential tool in our efforts to minimize COVID-19 transmission, and those masks are here for the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is important to understand how masks affect our most important perceptual ability, that is face perception. This […]
Tag Archives: Core Researcher
MoVi: A Large Multipurpose Motion and Video Dataset
Large high-quality datasets of human body shape and kinematics lay the foundation for modelling and simulation approaches in computer vision, computer graphics, and biomechanics. Creating datasets that combine naturalistic recordings with high-accuracy data about ground truth body shape and pose is challenging because different motion recording systems are either optimized for one or the other. […]
Auto-Labelling of Markers in Optical Motion Capture
Saeed Ghorbani is an EECS PhD student in the BioMotionLab directed by VISTA Core Researcher Niko Troje and hosted by the Department of Biology. His current project involves the development of new software to automatically label body position and motion in 3D space. Improvements to 'Marker Labelling' like this will save time and money for industries […]
Meta-Watching and Facial Recognition Cinema
Aaron Tucker is a PhD student in VISTA Core Member Graham Wakefield's lab. Within the Faculty of Art, Media, Performance & Design, Aaron's research explores the notion of cinema and perception from the perspective of the facial recognition enabled camera. “Meta-Watching and The Ontology of Facial Recognition Cinema” by Aaron Tucker won the Film Studies […]
Video - Laurence Harris & Understanding Space
Read the latest update in YFile. Our vestibular system helps us self-orient relative to gravity. But what can astronauts, living in the absence of gravity, teach us about our spaces? How do we know which way is up? Are things always exactly as far away as they seem? How do people orient themselves in time and […]
Video - Lauren Sergio & How the Brain & Body Work Together
For those with concussion or dementia who have difficulty with movement, pinpointing the problem can yield answers. In everyday life, there are lots of activities where people need to think while coordinating movement to interact with something. It could be focusing on a task and looking at a computer screen, all while moving a mouse […]
Video - Michael Brown & Do You See What I See?
Every phone camera captures colour a little bit differently, which can be trouble if you're using one to get a diagnosis. With the rise of smartphones, most adults carry a camera with them wherever they go. Most consumers would be happy if these cameras captured everyday moments as snappy and bright images that could be […]
Video - Rick Wildes & Helping Surgeons Live in the Moment
Surgical plans are imperfect guides, but new technological tools could help lighten the load for surgeons doing complex, delicate work. Every day in the operating room, surgeons make complex visual transformations in their minds. Any pre-operative information that they have based on medical imaging is usually static; however, during surgery there are many moving parts. […]
Video - How 'Double Vision' Can Be a Good Thing
A pair of York University collaborators are showing how a cross-disciplinary approach can help solve some tough vision-related challenges. In the quest to keep improving on cutting-edge technologies, it’s important not to lose sight of opportunities to use technological innovations to improve people’s lives. Collaborators Doug Crawford and Richard Wildes are both researchers at York University’s Vision: Science to Applications […]
The German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders
Dr. Denise Henriques, VISTA Training Committee Lead and Core Researcher, received a VISTA Travel Award to collaborate with German researchers in the field of sensorimotor functions. Her visit, to the German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders in Munich, allowed her to continue collaborations with Thomas Brandt (Director) in their investigation of multisensory integration and […]
Video - James Elder & Artificial Intelligence
We often forget how complex human vision is... and that poses plenty of challenges for those trying to teach machines how to "see". “One thing that’s really exciting about studying vision is that it is so powerful that we don’t actually think about it from day to day. We just use it. It’s only when […]
Video - Shayna Rosenbaum & Remapping a Damaged Mind
New insight on the hippocampus, which creates memories, could help patients dealing with neurological diseases. The hippocampus is part of the brain that is most known for its role in forming and retaining personal memories. But beyond allowing people to remember what they did yesterday, the hippocampus also helps people navigate their environments by helping […]
Video - Matthew Kyan & Deciphering Health and History
Machine learning tools can sift through huge databases of photos and video, helping archive historical objects and interpret medical images. Cameras are everywhere these days: capturing everyday moments, recording exceptional events and objects, and helping doctors take a closer look at our bodies when we’re sick. But while we’re very good at collecting this information, it […]
Vection and the International Space Station
The Vection team is led by Core Researcher, Laurence Harris, and includes Core Researchers Michael Jenkin and Robert Allison from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. VISTA Postdoctoral Fellow Nils-Alexander Bury and graduate student Meaghan McManus are also contributors to the project. The team aims to find out how visual information creates the […]
Video - Robert Allison & Taking VR to the 'Next Level'
Virtual reality is a new way to watch, but technology isn't enough, says one expert. We also need fresh approaches to make it compelling. “The lines between reality and virtual reality will become increasingly blurred. I think technology is steamrolling ahead. The technical advances are going to be there. It’s really up to us to see […]
Video - Denise Henriques & Accessible Design
Point-to-point reaching is a lot more complex than it may seem. Understanding it can help countless people better interact with their world. For most healthy young people, the motion of point-to-point reaching seems simple: starting from point A, you move your arm to take it to point B. But many systems are involved in making this […]
Video - Rick Wildes & Processing Images
What does it mean to "see"? The answer might help us train artificial systems to analyze the staggering volume of videos online. “We’re trying to understand, from a fundamental principles point of view, what it means to see.” Computational vision scientist Richard Wildes, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at York University, studies computer systems as […]
Mobility Assessment Technology Tool (MATT)
Dr. Lauren Sergio, a VISTA Core Member, and her team have recently developed a tool that assesses decline in mobility in aging patients. The Mobility Assessment Technology Tool (MATT) is a user-friendly, low-cost, non-invasive, computerized vision system that objectively and reproducibly measures gait or balance mobility of a patient based on the standard Tinetti kinesiology […]
Video – Doug Crawford & What Do You See?
Vision shapes so much of people's interaction with the world. One researcher is delving into how it all works in a unique way. So much of the brain is involved in vision and visual perception that almost any brain damage can have an impact not only on how a person sees, but also on how a […]
