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Angela Ingrid Renton, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Neural markers of visual function in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) allow clinicians and researchers to directly evaluate the functional changes in visual processing which occur as a result of the progressive loss of afferent input from the macula. ...

Frontiers Media SA2025

The self and the avatar mutual influences in embodied Virtual Reality

Loën Boban

In Virtual Reality (VR), users provided with a virtual body and congruent multi-sensory stimulation usually experience a feeling of embodiment of the virtual body, which can be interpreted as a transfer of bodily self-consciousness toward the avatar's body ...

EPFL2025

A Human-Centric Approach to Explainable AI for Personalized Education

Vinitra Swamy

Deep neural networks form the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) research, with potential to transform the human experience in areas ranging from autonomous driving to personal assistants, healthcare to education. However, their integration into the ...

EPFL2025

Beyond rhythmic sampling: The long-lasting effects of alpha oscillations in visual processing

Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Alpha oscillations represent the brain's electrical activity in the frequency range of 8 to 13 Hz. They are often considered to be the rhythm of conscious perception, rhythmically modulating the processing of sensory inputs. This interpretation has been dr ...

EPFL2024

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Bruno Herbelin, Fumiaki Iwane, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Objective. A key challenge of virtual reality (VR) applications is to maintain a reliable human-avatar mapping. Users may lose the sense of controlling (sense of agency), owning (sense of body ownership), or being located (sense of self-location) inside th ...

2024

A Virtual Reality-Based Protocol to Determine the Preferred Control Strategy for Hand Neuroprostheses in People with Paralysis

Solaiman Shokur

Hand neuroprostheses restore voluntary movement in people with paralysis through neuromodulation protocols. There are a variety of strategies to control hand neuroprostheses, which can be based on residual body movements or brain activity. There is no univ ...

2024

Intelligent Neural Interfaces: An Emerging Era in Neurotechnology

Mahsa Shoaran, Uisub Shin, Mohammad Ali Shaeri

Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in the development of intelligent neural interface systems-on-chip (SoCs) for a range of neurological disorders and emerging brain-machine interface (BMI) applications. The shift toward creating intel ...

IEEE2024

Bistable Perception Discriminates Between Depressive Patients, Controls, Schizophrenia Patients, and Their Siblings

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Simona Adele Garobbio

Background and Hypothesis Individuals with schizophrenia have less priors than controls, meaning they rely less upon their prior experiences to interpret the current stimuli. These differences in priors are expected to show as higher alternation rates in b ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2024

An actor-model framework for visual sensory encoding

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Diego Ghezzi, Babak Rahmani, Franklin Leong

A fundamental challenge in neuroengineering is determining a proper artificial input to a sensory system that yields the desired perception. In neuroprosthetics, this process is known as artificial sensory encoding, and it holds a crucial role in prostheti ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Investigating neural resource allocation in the sensorimotor control of extra limbs

Giulia Dominijanni

The rise of robotic body augmentation brings forth new developments that will transform robotics, human-machine interaction, and wearable electronics. Extra robotic limbs, although building upon restorative technologies, bring their own set of challenges i ...

EPFL2024

Visual Saliency Prediction for Natural Images, Comics Panels, and Comics Pages

Bahar Aydemir

Recent years have seen remarkable advancements in saliency estimation methods, mainly due to deep learning models leveraging the widespread availability of real-world images. However, saliency is profoundly shaped by the intricacies of the human visual att ...

EPFL2024

Intelligent Neural Interfaces: An Emerging Era in Neurotechnology

Mahsa Shoaran, Uisub Shin, Mohammad Ali Shaeri

Integrating smart algorithms on neural devices presents significant opportunities for various brain disorders. In this paper, we review the latest advancements in the development of three categories of intelligent neural prostheses featuring embedded signa ...

2024 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)2024

Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photographs: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases

Huishu Deng

Cities are increasingly reusing industrial heritage as part of cultural and creative regeneration strategies. However, designers and decision-makers face the challenge of determining which features and elements of industrial heritage are more perceived and ...

Springer2024

Towards Motion Forecasting with Real-World Perception Inputs: Are End-to-End Approaches Competitive?

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

Motion forecasting is crucial in enabling autonomous vehicles to anticipate the future trajectories of surrounding agents. To do so, it requires solving mapping, detection, tracking, and then forecasting problems, in a multi-step pipeline. In this complex ...

2024