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François d’Aguilon – ahead of his time?
posted by Jenny on November 15, 2021I’ve just downloaded d’Aguilon’s 1613 “Six Books of Optics” from the Internet Archive ( Opticorum Libri Sex by Aguilonius). It’s such a joy to have this classic texts freely available now. The downside is that it tempts me to go … Continue reading
Direction selectivity requires nonlinearity
posted by Jenny on November 19, 2019Thanks to Damon Clark at Yale and Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth at Harvard for pointing out the following to me. I had always thought that you could get a direction-selective neuron with a linear filter that is spatiotemporally inseparable, so that … Continue reading
Natural Environments, Tasks & Intelligence
posted by Jenny on July 1, 2019Back in April I attended the excellent NETI meeting at UT Austin. Here’s the group photo:
Everything you wanted to know about mantis breeding…
posted by Jenny on April 3, 2019Check out our guide to mantis breeding, by top insect technician Adam Simmons.
Da Vinci Stereopsis
posted by Jenny on March 1, 2018I have just been asked for “a succinct explanation of da Vinci stereopsis”. I googled in the hope of finding one, but couldn’t, so thought I’d put one up here. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t quite realise that stereoscopic depth perception … Continue reading
A Novel Form of Stereo Vision in the Praying Mantis
posted by Jenny on February 17, 2018Our latest paper on mantis stereopsis has just come out in Current Biology. Briefly, we find that mantis stereopsis operates very differently from humans’: it is based on temporal change, and does not require the images to be correlated. We … Continue reading
Chris and Maydel explain their PhD projects
posted by Jenny on November 10, 2017Lab members Chris Kaspiris-Rousellis, from Greece, and Maydel Fernandez Alonso, from Cuba, are Early Stage Researchers on the European Training Network on Full-Parallax Imaging. Here, they explain their projects. Find videos from all 15 ESRS here.
Vision Sciences Society meeting 2017
posted by Jenny on June 13, 2017Sid, Maydel, Chris and I had an excellent time at the VSS meeting last month. Thanks to Ignacio for this snap of my talk on “When invisible noise obscures the signal: the consequences of nonlinearity in motion detection.” Sid gave … Continue reading
3D glasses with glasses
posted by Jenny on May 31, 2017I was giving a talk recently about my work on viewer experience with stereoscopic 3D television, and an audience member asked a good question, which was: Was there any relationship between people complaining of adverse effects and whether they routinely … Continue reading
Life after PhD
posted by Jenny on February 22, 2017I was happy to see this blog post from software developer Scott Logic, featuring Readlab alumnus Paul Hands. We wish you all the best in your new career, Paul, and it’s great to see you using your maths, computing and … Continue reading
Why don’t we see the world upside down?
posted by Jenny on January 20, 2017This question comes up occasionally and I was just recently asked a similar question by email, so I thought it would be a good idea to do a blog post that everyone can see. Although there’s a great article on … Continue reading
“Blindness to background”
posted by Jenny on December 3, 2016My former colleague Dr Catherine O’Hanlon, now at Aberystwyth, and I have just published a paper on an interesting effect we found in small children. The roots of this study go back 7 years to when my son was two … Continue reading
ETN-FPI TS2
posted by Jenny on November 29, 2016Yes, it’s acronym time — by ETN-FPI TS2, I mean the second Training School of the European Training Network on Full-Parallax Imaging, which was held at the University of Valencia in September 2016. Chris Kaspiris-Rousellis and I attended, and had … Continue reading
Mantis videos
posted by Jenny on November 3, 2016In our lab, we run experiments on praying mantis vision. We show the insects videos on a computer (mainly boring stimuli like bars moving, or little black dots which are meant to simulate a bug) and video how they move, … Continue reading
ASTEROID in Arabic
posted by Jenny on September 9, 2016BBC Arabic’s flagship technology programme, 4Tech, covers our ASTEROID stereotest:
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