Talk by Prof Fabio Solari, 07.12, 11:15, RLC D1 661
Visual perception: from entertainment to rehabilitation
Abstract:
Nowadays, new technologies for advanced visualizations and free body interactions (e.g. stereoscopic 3D TVs, Kinect, Leap Motion, eye tracker, Oculus Rift) are widespread in entertainment applications. This has potential benefits for the society, since such technologies allow an easy access to information (also for education and training) and possibly an improvement of day life activities of impaired people. However, we have to pay attention to the side effects, such as cybersickness and visual fatigue, of such new interaction modalities, since the human senses might be elicited in uncomfortable (i.e. non-natural) ways. Thus, we have to devise solutions to mitigate such effects both for healthy and fragile people.
In this talk, I will show how we have assessed new visualization technologies and how we have mitigate their side effects. This allows us to use such low-cost technologies in entertainment applications, in psychophysical experiments and in rehabilitation tasks.
BIO
Fabio Solari received the MSc in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Genoa in 1995 and 1999. Since 2005, he has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering of the University of Genoa.
His research activity concerns the study of visual perception with the aim to develop computational models of cortical vision processing, to devise novel bio-inspired computer vision algorithms, and to design virtual and mixed reality environments for ecological visual stimulations. In particular, his research interests are related to neuromorphic architectures of visual cortex, (space-variant visual processing, motion and depth estimation, and scene interpretation), and virtual/augmented reality systems for natural human-computer interaction (analysis of the off-the-shelf technologies and their use in VR/AR system, misperception and visual fatigue assessment).
He teaches ``Software Technologies for HCI'' for the master on Bioengineering, and ``Computer Vision'' for the European Master on Advanced Robotics. He is Member of the Board of the Doctoral Course in Bioengineering and Robotics at University of Genoa.
He has participated to five European projects: FP7-ICT, EYESHOTS and SEARISE; FP6-IST-FET, DRIVSCO; FP6-NEST, MCCOOP; FP5-IST-FET, ECOVISION. He is a reviewer for Italian PRIN and FIRB projects, and Marie Curie fellowships. He has a pending International Patent Application (WO2013088390) on augmented reality, and a pending Italian Patent Application (TO2014A000235) on virtual reality.