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Yair Barnatan from UBA attends XXXV Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Society for Neuroscience Research

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Yair Barnatan from UBA attends XXXV Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Society for Neuroscience Research

Yair Barnatan is an ULTRACEPT PhD student, at the University of Buenos Aires, working in the field of neuroethology. He is currently focused on neuronal processing of optic flow in the crustacean visual system, unravelling which and how neurons are Continue reading Yair Barnatan from UBA attends XXXV Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Society for Neuroscience Research→

IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) July 2019

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Tian Liu attending the IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) July 2019

The IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) conference was held in Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan on the 3rd to 5th July 2019. You can access the conference website here. The 2019 conference was collaboratively Continue reading IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) July 2019→

Developing a Bio-Inspired Visual System for Small Target Motion Detection Against Complex Environment

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Fig. 3. Discussing with Professor Peng in his office.

Hongxin Wang received BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics and applied mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, U.K. He visited Guangzhou University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from 2019 to 2020. During Hongxin’s secondment, his work focused on Work Package 1: Collision detection visual neural systems modelling and Work Package 2: Multiple visual neural systems coordination for robust collision detection. Continue reading Developing a Bio-Inspired Visual System for Small Target Motion Detection Against Complex Environment→

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) July 2019

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The 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) was held at the InterContinental Budapest Hotel in Budapest, Hungary on the 14-19 July 2019. The full Program with Abstracts can be found here. This conference was attended by STEP2DYNA researchers Continue reading International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) July 2019→

15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) May 2019

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The 2019 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations AIAI was held on the 24th -26th May 2019 in Crete, Greece at the Knossos Royal Beach Resort. The detailed program can be found here. The conference was attended Continue reading 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) May 2019→

Understanding How the Mud Crab Uses Visual Information to Respond to Approaching Stimulus

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Thomas Harper outside the Casa Rosada in Argentina

Thomas Harper has just completed his MPhil (Neuroscience) in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University. He carried out his secondment with our STEP2DYNA project in 2018 – 2019 at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. During Thomas’ Continue reading Understanding How the Mud Crab Uses Visual Information to Respond to Approaching Stimulus→

International Symposium on Crossmodal Learning in Humans and Robots November 2019

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The International Symposium on Crossmodal Learning in Humans and Robots was held in at the Universität Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany on the 27 – 29 November 2019. You can access the symposium agenda here. The Symposium included invited talks, short Continue reading International Symposium on Crossmodal Learning in Humans and Robots November 2019→