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 […]
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Neuroimaging to Understand Action and Coordination
Modulation of large-scale brain systems using network-based neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation to understand and improve goal-directed cognition and action. The relationship between what our eyes see and the brain heavily influences our understanding and ability to physically react to our world. While hand-eye coordination has been studied for thousands of years little is understood […]
Vision-Based Diver Robot Interactions at Depth
Lassonde School of Engineering graduate student Robert Codd-Downey received a VISTA Doctoral Scholarship in early 2017. His research is supervised by VISTA Core Member Michael Jenkin and focuses on ‘Vision based diver robot interactions at depth’, a project funded by NSERC’s Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN). More specifically, Codd-Downey’s project explores how communication can be […]
