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Media Mention: Professor John Tsotsos disproves 60-year-old Perception Theory

By tech | November 6, 2019 | Category Uncategorized

Vision researchers at York University have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system processes images, using computational models and human experiments. A team led by John Tsotsos, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Lassonde School of Engineering, found that the human brain does not select interesting portions […]

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Lassonde Undergraduate Research Awards 2019

By tech | September 19, 2019 | Category Uncategorized

Since 2015 Lassonde has offered internal summer research awards to provide research experience for undergraduate students. The LURA program is run jointly with NSERC USRA and ends each summer with a professional conference that includes poster sessions, oral presentations, networking and awards. This year Dr. John Tsotsos supervised undergraduate researcher Brittany Danishevsky. She presented her […]

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CASCON 2018 Keynote: “It Only Took 60 Years to Solve Artificial Intelligence – That Wasn’t so Hard, Was it?”

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

John Tsotsos will give a keynote talk at the 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2018) in Toronto, Canada, Oct. 31, 2018. More details: https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/ Abstract: It has been 62 years since

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Yulia Kotseruba and John Tsotsos Keynote Talk at 2018 AAAI Fall Symposium

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

Yulia Kotseruba and John Tsotsos are Keynote Speakers for the 2018 AAAI Fall Symposium on ‘A Common Model of Cognition’, in Arlington VA, Oct. 19, 2018. The title of the talk is “40 Years of Cognitive Architectures: Core Cognitive Abilities and Practical Applications.”

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Tsotsos Lab’s recent media mentions

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

The New York Times: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning Quanta Magazine: Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room The Register: AI image recognition systems can be tricked by copying and pasting random objects jiqizhixin.com: 「房间里的大象」:让目标检测器一脸懵逼 Import AI: Fooling object recognition systems by adding more objects Twitter: : “Fan Art” tvo.org: Ontario Innovators: […]

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BDCV 2018 Keynote, “Visual Attention: Brain Mechanisms and Computational Models”

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

John Tsotsos was keynote speaker at the 1st Workshop on Brain-Driven Computer Vision (BDCV 2018), a workshop held in Association with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Munich, Germany, Sept. 8, 2018. The talk slides can be seen here: http://www.upcv.upatras.gr/BDCV/BDCV-eecv2018.pdf

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ICSC 2018 Keynote: “Attention is More Important for Visual Cognition and Reasoning Than You Think”

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

John Tsotsos gave a keynote talk at the the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2018) in Rome, Italy, Sept. 13, 2018. More information on the talk can be found here: https://www.icsc-rome.org/keynotes/ Abstract: I will present a view of the breadth of activities, recently completed, ongoing or just hot off the presses, in my […]

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Amir Rasouli at ECCV 2018

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

Amir Rasouli will present “It’s Not All About Size: On the Role of Data Properties in Pedestrian Detection,” at the 6th Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving (CVRSUAD) at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018). The poster can be found here, and for more information on the workshop, […]

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Sang-Ah’s paper on The Attentional Suppressive surround to appear in Frontiers in Neuroscience

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

Abstract: The Selective Tuning model of visual attention (Tsotsos, 1990) has proposed that the focus of attention is surrounded by an inhibitory zone, eliciting a center-surround attentional distribution. This attentional suppressive surround inhibits irrelevant information which is located close to attended information in physical space (e.g., Cutzu and Tsotsos, 2003; Hopf et al., 2010) or […]

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Markus Solbach’s and Amir Rosenfeld’s “Totally Looks Like – How Humans Compare, Compared to Machines” in ACCV

By tech | October 4, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

Abstract: Perceptual judgment of image similarity by humans relies on rich internal representations ranging from low-level features to high-level concepts, scene properties and even cultural associations. However, existing methods and datasets attempting to explain perceived similarity use stimuli which arguably do not cover the full breadth of factors that a ect human similarity judgments, even those […]

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