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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 AM
AYES is a Belgian-based company that is co-founded by three computer scientists. Our journey started when our visually impaired family...
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...
Zoom Colloquium: Improving Comics 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...
Zoom Brown Bag: Localization for Indoor Navigation using Computer Vision
Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: For blind and low-vision individuals, traveling independently can be a challenging endeavor. Current technology and infrastructure makes this task...
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...
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...
Zoom Brown Bag: Excitatory and Suppressive Contribution to Binocular Interactions in Human Visual Cortex
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract – During binocular viewing, visual inputs from the two eyes interact at the level of visual cortex. In normal...
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
Zoom Brown Bag: A Virtual Environment for Training Blind People to Learn to Use Camera-Based Navigation Systems
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Assistive navigation systems for blind people take images or videos as an input for various tasks such as finding the...
Zoom Colloquium: The Angry Crowd Bias: Social, Cognitive, and Perceptual Mechanisms
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Accuracy and bias may seem at odds in perception. Yet they are as much complementary as they are contradictory. For...