• What good is depth perception? 9 February 2018, 4.00 PM - 9 February 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Harriet Allen - University of Nottingham Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ
  • Perceptual continuity in active vision 23 February 2018, 1.00 PM - 23 February 2018, 2.00 PM Dr Martin Rolfs - Humboldt-University of Berlin G14, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • The role of eye movements during object recognition 9 March 2018, 4.00 PM - 9 March 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Filipe Cristino - Nottingham Trent University Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • What makes an eye? An exploration of vision in ‘blind’ animals 23 March 2018, 4.00 PM - 23 March 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney - Oxford University Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • Walking the Walk - the impact of the visual environment on locomotion 13 April 2018, 4.00 PM - 13 April 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Ute Leonards - University of Bristol G13, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • Localisation and Mapping using Computer Vision 27 April 2018, 4.00 PM - 27 April 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Andrew Calway - University of Bristol Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • What if it rains? Sensing for vehicle autonomy in bad weather 8 June 2018, 4.00 PM - 8 June 2018, 5.00 PM Professor Andrew Wallace, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • British Cinema in Colour: Creativity, Culture and the Negotiation of Innovation 15 June 2018, 4.00 PM - 15 June 2018, 5.00 PM Professor Sarah Street - University of Bristol Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue
  • Watching Animation in New York: Kinetic advertising, art and design, ca. 1939 26 October 2018, 4.00 PM - 26 October 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Kristian Moen, University of Bristol Rooms 1.11/1.11a, Merchant Venturers Building, University of Bristol
  • A fine-grained perspective onto object interactions from first-person views 8 February 2019, 4.00 PM - 8 February 2019, 5.00 PM Dima Damen, Associate Professor, University of Bristol Life Sciences Building, G13/14
  • Spatial processing in hawkmoth vision - neural mechanisms and behavioural consequences 5 April 2019, 4.00 PM - 5 April 2019, 5.00 PM Dr Anna Stöckl, Researcher, Würzburg University, Germany Life Sciences Building, Room G13/14
  • Playing with Sensory Alignment 23 November 2018, 4.00 PM - 23 November 2018, 5.00 PM Professor Steve Benford, Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University Merchant Venturers Building, Room 1.11
  • How do many-eyed animals see the world? Natural models for distributed visual sensor arrays 14 December 2018, 4.00 PM - 14 December 2018, 5.00 PM Dr Michael Bok, Ecology of Vision, University of Bristol Room 1.11, Merchant Venturers Building
  • Using virtual reality to explore animal perception and behaviour 25 January 2019, 4.00 PM - 25 January 2019, 5.00 PM Dr Tom Pike, Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Room G03/04, Life Sciences Building
  • The Social Dynamics of Live Audiences 15 February 2019, 4.00 PM - 15 February 2019, 5.00 PM Pat Healey, Professor of Human Interaction and Head of the Cognitive Science Research Group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London Room G13/14, Life Sciences Building
  • Colour perception in migraine 22 March 2019, 4.00 PM - 22 March 2019, 5.00 PM Dr Alex Shepherd, Reader, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex on 12 Priory Road
  • Animal groups as mobile sensor networks 22 March 2019, 4.00 PM - 22 March 2019, 5.00 PM Dr James Herbert-Read, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Combining Complex Wavelets with Deep Networks: Aiming to Improve Learning Efficiency for Vision Systems 3 May 2019, 4.00 PM - 3 May 2019, 5.00 PM Professor Nick Kingsbury, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Do reaction time distributions tell us anything? 17 May 2019, 4.00 PM - 17 May 2019, 5.00 PM Professor Chris Harris, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Plymouth G13/14, Life Sciences Building
  • On The Threshold - The Experience of Space In Photography and Site-specific Installation 31 May 2019, 4.00 PM - 31 May 2019, 5.00 PM Professor Silvio Wolf, Visual Artist and Professor Psychology Common Room, Prior Road Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall of Cognitive Science: Attention in the lab and in the wild 12 June 2019, 4.00 PM - 12 June 2019, 5.00 PM Alan Kingstone, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Can eyewitness memory be exonerated? 11 October 2019, 4.00 PM - 11 October 2019, 5.00 PM Laura Mickes, Professor in the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Smoke, Mirrors + Creative Storytelling - helping audiences gain knowledge through experience 8 November 2019, 4.00 PM - 8 November 2019, 5.00 PM John Durrant, BDH Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • How does Siri hear you? 22 November 2019, 4.00 PM - 22 November 2019, 5.00 PM John Bridle, Machine Learning Research Engineer, Apple Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Welcome to your Emotional Reality 13 December 2019, 4.00 PM - 13 December 2019, 5.00 PM Fred Warren, Creative Director, Digital Catapult Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Other person perception in adults and children reveals fundamental trait characteristics 31 January 2020, 4.00 PM - 31 January 2020, 5.00 PM Isabelle Mareschal, Reader in Psychology and Head of Psychology Department, Queen Mary University of London Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Overview of 'Vision for the Future' funded projects 17 January 2020, 4.00 PM - 17 January 2020, 5.00 PM Dr Rosie Clark, Dr Jasmina Stevanov, Dr Brian Sullivan, Dr Aaron Zhang, Dr Paul Hill Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Visual aesthetics and the brain’s “default-mode” network 28 February 2020, 4.00 PM - 28 February 2020, 5.00 PM Dr Edward Vessel, Senior Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Designing multi-person VR to elicit mystical-type experiences comparable to psychedelics 14 February 2020, 4.00 PM - 14 February 2020, 5.00 PM Dr David Glowacki, Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Bristol Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Calibrating colour vision 15 May 2020, 4.00 PM - 15 May 2020, 5.00 PM Dr Jenny Bosten, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sussex This seminar will take place online. For joining instructions, email bvi-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk
  • Frontiers in Animal Biometrics 12 June 2020, 4.00 PM - 12 June 2020, 5.00 PM Dr Tilo Burghardt, Department of Computer Science, Visual Information Laboratory, SPHERE, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Bristol Via Zoom, joining instructions below
  • Introduction to Bristol Vision Institute 16 October 2020, 4.00 PM - 16 October 2020, 5.00 PM BVI Management team Zoom
  • Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters (Eventbrite booking essential) 20 November 2020, 4.00 PM - 20 November 2020, 5.00 PM Professor Kirsten Cater, Professor Mandy Rose, Professor Danae Stanton Fraser Zoom webinar - pre-registration essential (https://virtualrealitieswebinar.eventbrite.co.uk)
  • Find the frog: frog camouflage and a changing visual environment 6 November 2020, 4.00 PM - 6 November 2020, 5.00 PM Dr James Barnett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada Zoom
  • tbc 4 December 2020, 10.00 AM - 4 December 2020, 11.00 AM Dr Maiko Uesaki, Visual Perception Lab of Gerrit Maus, Singapore Zoom
  • Learning-based detection and time-series prediction of ground motion InSAR data 4 December 2020, 4.00 PM - 4 December 2020, 5.00 PM Dr Pui Anantrasirichai and Dr Paul Hill, Research Fellows within the Visual Information Laboratory, University of Bristol Zoom
  • Seeing with sound - acoustic camouflage against biosonar 5 February 2021, 4.00 PM - 5 February 2021, 5.00 PM Professor Marc Holderied, Professor of Sensory Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol Zoom
  • Searching in clutter: The effect of feature congestion in leaf litter 21 May 2021, 4.00 PM - 21 May 2021, 5.00 PM Becky Maguire, Postgraduate Researcher, University of St Andrews Zoom
  • From camouflage to cattle: machine learning approaches in animal sensing and biometrics 16 April 2021, 4.00 PM - 16 April 2021, 5.00 PM Dr Laszlo Talas, EPSRC Innovation Fellow and Dr John Fennell, EPSRC Innovation Fellow Zoom
  • Demystifying the richness of visual perception 26 November 2021, 4.00 PM - 26 November 2021, 5.00 PM Ruth Rosenholtz Principal Research Scientist Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zoom - https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97115689473
  • Immersive Working Memory: Natural Usage and Spatial Frames 10 December 2021, 4.00 PM - 10 December 2021, 5.00 PM Dejan Draschkow, Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology, St John’s College Oxford Zoom: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95429850502?pwd=K2d2NnUwRVNpMC9LSWUwangrU0xhUT09
  • Immersive Pipeline: Social, visceral audiovisual projection and performance 11 February 2022, 4.00 PM - 11 February 2022, 5.00 PM Professor Atau Tanaka, Professor of Media Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98678797315
  • What BVI can do for you? 6 October 2023, 4.00 PM - 6 October 2023, 5.00 PM BVI Management Team Psychology Common Room, Priory Road Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Motion and form in the perception of biological motion 1 December 2023, 4.00 PM - 1 December 2023, 5.00 PM George Mather Psychology Common Room, Priory Road Complex, 12a Priory Road
  • Our quest to improve playback experience at Netflix: a practitioner's perspective 22 April 2024, 4.00 PM - 22 April 2024, 5.30 PM Te-Yuan Huang, Senior Engineer Manager at Netflix Life Sciences Building G13-G14
  • Social Kinematics: A Motor-Perceptual Approach to Facial Expression Communication 3 May 2024, 4.00 PM - 3 May 2024, 5.00 PM Dr Hélio Cuve, Lecturer, School of Psychological Science Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road
  • BVI Seminar Series

    Our seminars will take place via Zoom for the foreseeable future.

    Joining instructions for each seminar can be found on the same page as the seminar description.