Zoom Colloquium: ACTION AUDIO: Non-Visual Sports Broadcasting
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Abstract – Billions of people in the world watch sport media broadcasts to follow their favorite sports, e.g., tennis, soccer,...
Zoom Colloquium: Scaling Assistive Technologies
Thursday, October 7th, 2021 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss ongoing work in developing scalable tools for seamlessly interactive assistive technologies. The proposed...
Special Time: 11:00 AM, Zoom Colloquium: OKO – app that uses computer vision to assist blind and visually impaired people
Thursday, September 1st, 2022 – 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM
AYES is a Belgian-based company that is co-founded by three computer scientists. Our journey started when our visually impaired family...
Hybrid Colloquium: Calculus for the Blind and Visually-Impaired
Thursday, November 17th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: When Isaac Newton developed calculus in the 1600s, he was trying to tie together math and physics in an...
Multisensory Information access and AI: Advancing opportunities for the Visually Impaired
Friday, July 19th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Lack of timely access to information is a significant problem for the nearly 24 million blind or visually impaired (BVI)...
Advanced Psychophysical Methods for Comprehensive Visual Function Assessment
Thursday, July 25th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Assessing visual function is a fundamental aspect of eye research. However, existing tests often face limitations due to their design...
Deep neural networks as scientific models of vision
Thursday, June 13th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in many different ways to address scientific questions about how biological vision works....
The Role of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies in low vision rehabilitation
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Visual impairment refers to a condition where a person’s eyesight cannot be improved with medical treatment. Such individuals face difficulties...
Temporal instabilities in the human eye’s auto-focus mechanism: characteristics, source and impact on vision
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Our eyes are never at rest. Between the microsaccadic eye movements and microfluctuations of the eye’s autofocus mechanism (ocular accommodation),...
A real-world visual illusion
Thursday, February 29th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
I will describe our research into a surprising visual illusion in which humans misperceive the shape of a highly familiar...
Improving recognition of cluttered objects using motion parallax in simulated prosthetic vision
Thursday, January 25th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
The efficacy of visual prostheses in object recognition is limited. While various limitations exist, here we focus on reducing the...
Vision across the gait cycle
Thursday, January 18th, 2024 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Walking, a fundamental human activity, presents challenges to visual stability due to motion blur induced by eye movements. The goal...