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

Posted on January 26, 2021 by comitchell — No Comments ↓

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→

STEP2DYNA Researchers Present at IEEE ICRA 2021

Posted on January 10, 2021 by comitchell — No Comments ↓

The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2021) was held in Xi’an, China from 31st May to 4th June 2021. As one of the premier and top conferences in the field of robotics and automation, this great Continue reading STEP2DYNA Researchers Present at IEEE ICRA 2021→

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

Posted on April 8, 2020 by comitchell

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→

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

Posted on January 20, 2020 by comitchell — No Comments ↓

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

Posted on December 24, 2019 by comitchell — No Comments ↓

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→