Colloquium Events

2:00 PM, Hybrid Colloquium: Harnessing the Computer Science-Vision Science Symbiosis

Thursday, April 20th, 2023 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Abstract – Emerging platforms such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and autonomous machines, all intimately interact with humans....

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Hybrid Colloquium: Developing Disability-First Datasets for Non-Visual Information Access

Thursday, December 8th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Image descriptions, audio descriptions, and tactile media provide non-visual access to the information contained in visual media. As intelligent systems are...

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Hybrid Colloquium: Measuring featural attention using fMRI and MEG

Friday, December 2nd, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Abstract – Attention to low-level visual features can alter the activity of neurons in visual cortex. In principle we expect...

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Hybrid Colloquium: Gaze and Gait: Changes in gaze behavior during locomotor learning

Thursday, December 1st, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Abstract – During walking, people use vision to both create movement plans about future steps and correct the execution of...

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Zoom Colloquium: Improving Comics Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

A number of researches have been conducted to improve how people with visual impairments interact with various types of images...

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Hybrid Colloquium: Making Calculus Accessible

Monday, November 7th, 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...

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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 PM

AYES is a Belgian-based company that is co-founded by three computer scientists. Our journey started when our visually impaired family...

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Zoom Colloquium: On the interaction between body movements and cognition

Thursday, June 30th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Cognitive processes are almost exclusively investigated in settings for which voluntary body movements are largely suppressed. However, even basic sensory...

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Zoom Colloquium: Dr. David Guyton will give a presentation entitled Revisiting the 2022 Jampolsky Lecture: Reaching for the Holy Grail in Strabismus: The Mechanism Underlying Infantile Esotropia

Thursday, May 19th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

David L Guyton, M.D., Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology Professor of Ophthalmology https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/david-guyton  

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Postponed: Tuesday, Zoom Colloquium: Making Calculus Accessible

Tuesday, July 26th, 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...

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Zoom Colloquium: Braille Literacy Rates in the U.S.: Knowing What We Don’t Know

Thursday, August 18th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

For almost as long as braille has existed, researchers, advocates, educators, and innovators have been influenced by assumptions or beliefs...

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Zoom Colloquium: Exploring cortical dynamics of visual processing using magnetoencephalographic source imaging (MEG-I)

Thursday, January 13th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Over the past several decades, magnetoencephalography (MEG) has emerged as an efficient technique to study brain function non-invasively with a...

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