Publications related to Multistable perception

Towards Motion Forecasting with Real-World Perception Inputs: Are End-to-End Approaches Competitive?

Motion forecasting is crucial in enabling autonomous vehicles to anticipate the future trajectories of surrounding agents. To do so, it requires solving mapping, detection, tracking, and then forecasting problems, in a multi-step pipeline. In this complex ...

2024

Hierarchical processing underpins competition in tactile perceptual bistability

Andrea Ferrario

Ambiguous sensory information can lead to spontaneous alternations between perceptual states, recently shown to extend to tactile perception. The authors recently proposed a simplified form of tactile rivalry which evokes two competing percepts for a fixed ...

SPRINGER2023

The full-body illusion changes visual depth perception

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Knowing where objects are relative to us implies knowing where we are relative to the external world. Here, we investigated whether space perception can be influenced by an experimentally induced change in perceived self-location. To dissociate real and ap ...

Nature Research2023

Framing the News: From Human Perception to Large Language Model Inferences

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Identifying the frames of news is important to understand the articles' vision, intention, message to be conveyed, and which aspects of the news are emphasized. Framing is a widely studied concept in journalism, and has emerged as a new topic in computing, ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

A load cell with adjustable stiffness and zero offset tuning dedicated to electrical micro- and nanoprobing

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Michal Stanislaw Smreczak

The tasks of electrical micro- and nanoprobing require precision that goes beyond human perception and therefore, depend on sensors providing real-time feedback. Efforts towards automation in micro- and nanoprobing and emerging areas such as branched nanow ...

2022

Learning V1 Simple Cells with Vector Representation of Local Content and Matrix Representation of Local Motion

Yufan Ren, Siyuan Huang

This paper proposes a representational model for image pairs such as consecutive video frames that are related by local pixel displacements, in the hope that the model may shed light on motion perception in primary visual cortex (V1). The model couples the ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2022

Individual differences in visual (mis)perception: a multivariate statistical approach

Aline Françoise Cretenoud

Common factors are omnipresent in everyday life, e.g., people who do well in one cognitive test are likely to perform well in other cognitive tests as well, and vice versa. In vision, however, there seems to be a multitude of specific factors rather than a ...

EPFL2021

Review of multi-domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero

Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as additional domains influencing occupant ...

2020

EEG Correlates of Difficulty Levels in Dynamical Transitions of Simulated Flying and Mapping Tasks

David Atienza Alonso, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Ping-Keng Jao

Decoding the subjective perception of task difficulty may help improve operator performance, i.e., automatically optimize the task difficulty level. Here, we aim to decode a compound of cognitive states that covaries with the task difficulty level. We desi ...

2020

Temperature–Color Interaction: Subjective Indoor Environmental Perception and Physiological Responses in Virtual Reality

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo, Kynthia Chamilothori

Objective Temperature–color interaction effects on subjective perception and physiological responses are investigated using a novel hybrid experimental method combining thermal and visual stimuli from real and virtual reality (VR) environments, respectivel ...

2021

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Bilal Demir

The cameras are invented by imitating the human visual system to capture the scene. The camera technologies have been substantially advanced in recent years. 108 MP resolution with 100x hybrid zoom has become standard features for smartphone flagships. In ...

EPFL2020

Perceptual effects of daylight patterns in architecture

Kynthia Chamilothori

The profound impact of daylight on occupants is broadly recognized in the fields of architecture and lighting. In particular, the façade and its interplay with light is a central design element, while the diversity of daylight in space is widely acknowledg ...

EPFL2019

Building perception block by block: a response to Fekete et al

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Adrien Christophe Doerig

Is consciousness a continuous stream, or do percepts occur only at certain moments of time? This age-old question is still under debate. Both positions face difficult problems, which we proposed to overcome with a 2-stage model, where unconscious processin ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

Is the car losing its shine? An analysis of European adolescents' imaginaries of the automobile

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

Recent scientific publications show an increase in the average age for obtaining a driving licence. This phenomenon would tend to suggest a certain disavowal of the car among young adults and teenagers. Basing on a survey of more than 8’000 teenagers in fi ...

2022

Associations between genetic variations and global motion perception

Michael Herzog

The cholinergic system is known to strongly modulate perceptual and cognitive processes, and the alpha7 subunit of the cholinergic nicotinic receptor (CHRNA7) is broadly expressed within the visual system. Here, we assessed whether genetic variations of CH ...

2019

SynDeMo: Synergistic Deep Feature Alignment for Joint Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Seyedbehzad Bozorgtabar, Mohammad Saeed Rad

Despite well-established baselines, learning of scene depth and ego-motion from monocular video remains an ongoing challenge, specifically when handling scaling ambiguity issues and depth inconsistencies in image sequences. Much prior work uses either a su ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Andrea Serino, Maria Laura Blefari

The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment. The interaction of the bodily senses with the space ...

Frontiers Media2018

Deep Learning of Human Perception in Audio Event Classification

Samuel Denys Beuret, Yi Yu

In this paper, we introduce our recent studies on human perception in audio event classification. In particular, the pre-trained model VGGish is used as feature extractor to process audio data, and DenseNet is trained by and used as feature extractor for o ...

IEEE2018

Façade design and our experience of space: the joint impact of architecture and daylight on human perception and physiological responses

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Kynthia Chamilothori

Daylight has an undeniable value in various aspects of architectural design, ranging from energy efficiency and user comfort to our experience of space. Even though there is substantial evidence of the positive effects of daylight access on occupants, we h ...

2018

About specific and general factors for visual illusions

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Gregory Francis, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Contrary to studies of audition and cognition, we previously did not find evidence for a general common factor for vision but for many very specific ones. For example, we found strong correlations between 19 versions of the Ebbinghaus illusion, which diffe ...

2018