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SeminarPast EventPsychology

Heading perception in crowded environments

Anna-Gesina Hülemeier

University of Münster

Schedule
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

5:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Host: AFC Lab & CARLA Talk Series

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Domain

Psychology

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AFC Lab & CARLA Talk Series

Duration

70 minutes

Abstract

Self-motion through a visual world creates a pattern of expanding visual motion called optic flow. Heading estimation from the optic flow is accurate in rigid environments. But it becomes challenging when other humans introduce an independent motion to the scene. The biological motion of human walkers consists of translation through space and associated limb articulation. The characteristic motion pattern is regular, though complex. A world full of humans moving around is nonrigid, causing heading errors. But limb articulation alone does not perturb the global structure of the flow field, matching the rigidity assumption. For heading perception from optic flow analysis, limb articulation alone should not impair heading estimates. But we observed heading biases when participants encountered a group of point-light walkers. Our research investigates the interactions between optic flow perception and biological motion perception. We further analyze the impact of environmental information.

Topics

biological motionheading estimationheading perceptionlimb articulationmotion patternsnonrigid environmentsoptic flowpoint-light walkersvisual motion

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Anna-Gesina Hülemeier

University of Münster

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