Publications by Florian Aymanns

TTool: A Supervised Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Visual Pose Detector for Tool Heads in Augmented Reality Woodworking

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Florian Aymanns, Naravich Chutisilp

We present TimberTool (TTool v2.1.1), a software designed for woodworking tasks assisted by augmented reality (AR), emphasizing its essential function of the real-time localization of a tool head’s poses within camera frames. The localization process, a fu ...

2024

Harmonizing sound and light: X-ray imaging unveils acoustic signatures of stochastic inter-regime instabilities during laser melting

Roland Logé, Florian Aymanns, Milad Hamidi Nasab

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a metal additive manufacturing technique involving complex interplays between vapor, liquid, and solid phases. Despite LPBF's advantageous capabilities compared to conventional manufacturing methods, the underlying physica ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Ascending neurons convey behavioral state to integrative sensory and action selection brain regions

Pavan P Ramdya, Nicolas Talabot, Chin-Lin Chen, Florian Aymanns

Knowing one's own behavioral state has long been theorized as critical for contextualizing dynamic sensory cues and identifying appropriate future behaviors. Ascending neurons (ANs) in the motor system that project to the brain are well positioned to provi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Microengineered devices enable long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Pavan P Ramdya, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Chin-Lin Chen, Murat Kaynak, Semih Günel, Victor Lobato Rios, Laura Joan Hermans, Florian Aymanns, Jonas Friedrich Braun

The dynamics and connectivity of neural circuits continuously change on timescales ranging from milliseconds to an animal's lifetime. Therefore, to understand biological networks, minimally invasive methods are required to repeatedly record them in behavin ...

Nature Research2022

Descending neuron population dynamics during odor-evoked and spontaneous limb-dependent behaviors

Pavan P Ramdya, Chin-Lin Chen, Florian Aymanns

Deciphering how the brain regulates motor circuits to control complex behaviors is an important, long-standing challenge in neuroscience. In the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, this is coordinated by a population of similar to 1100 descending neurons (DNs). ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2022

Overcoming the Domain Gap in Neural Action Representations

Pascal Fua, Pavan P Ramdya, Semih Günel, Florian Aymanns, Sina Honari

Relating behavior to brain activity in animals is a fundamental goal in neuroscience, with practical applications in building robust brain-machine interfaces. However, the domain gap between individuals is a major issue that prevents the training of genera ...

SPRINGER2022

Uncovering the neural substrates of communication between the brain and ventral nerve cord in Drosophila melanogaster (italic)

Florian Aymanns

Despite a long history of research in motor control, the exact mechanism of how the brain communicates with the the invertebrate ventral nerve cord (VNC) and the vertebrate spinal cord on a single neuron basis remains largely elusive. Drosophila melanogast ...

EPFL2022

Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila

Michaël Unser, Pavan P Ramdya, Denis Fortun, Chin-Lin Chen, Laura Joan Hermans, Florian Aymanns

To understand neural circuits that control limbs, one must measure their activity during behavior. Until now this goal has been challenging, because limb premotor and motor circuits have been largely inaccessible for large-scale recordings in intact, movin ...

Nature Research2018