Stereoscopic vision uses the disparity between the images received by the two eyes to derive three-dimensional estimates. Here, we were interested in providing a measure of the strength of binocular vision alternate to disparity processing. In particular, we wanted to assess the spatial dependence of sensitivity to detect interocular correlation (IOC). Thus we designed dichoptic stimuli compose...

Learning Full-Body Motions from Monocular Vision in Real-Time: Dynamic Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

A new study has shown that neurons in the visual cortex are specialized to encode the larger range of horizontal - relative to vertical - disparities that occurs in central vision. These results challenge the established 'energy' model of disparity processing.

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We explore the use of colour for interpretation of unstructured off-road scenes. The aim is to extract driveable areas for use in an autonomous off-road vehicle in real-time. The terrain is an unstructured tropical jungle area with vegetation, water and red mud roads. We show that hue is both robust to changing lighting conditions and an important feature for correctly interpreting this type of...

Although the function of polarization vision, the ability to discern the polarization characteristics of light, is well established in many terrestrial and benthic species, its purpose in pelagic species (squid and certain fish and crustaceans) is poorly understood [1]. A long-held hypothesis is that polarization vision in open water is used to break the mirror camouflage of silvery fish, as bi...

Some 40 years ago a metaphor was posed that cancer was such an insidious adversary that a declaration of war on the disease was justified. Although this statement was a useful inspiration for enlistment of resources, despite extraordinary progress in our understanding of disease pathogenesis, in most cases and for most forms of cancer this war has not been won. A second metaphor was about magic...

This study aimed to judge the appropriateness of a particular nurse researcher's actions in a vignette from the clinical field, and to explore frameworks used to determine the appropriateness of actions. Twelve experienced nurse researchers were interviewed by telephone. They were given four vignettes of actual research situations and asked to comment and explain their judgement on the appropri...