Founded in 1992, the Centre for Vision Research focusses on interdisciplinary research into human and machine vision and visual processes, into vision's interactions with other senses and with motor and cognitive processes, and in applications such as visually-guided robotics or clinical diagnosis and treatment.
The CVR Faculty Retreat, Eaton Hall in King City, June 29, 2006. From left to right: Ian Howard, Michael Jenkin, Fran Wilkinson, Laurence Harris, Hiroshi Ono, Josee Rivest, Richard Wildes, Jennifer Steeves, Richard Hornsey, Lauren Sergio, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Denise Henriques, Richard Murray, Laurie Wilcox, Martin Steinbach, James Elder, Hugh Wilson, Doug Crawford, John Tsotsos, Maz Fallah. Absent: Minas Spetsakis, Scott Adler, David Regan, Rob Allison.
The Centre for Vision Research includes the following major research themes:
- Human Visual Performance
- Visual Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Virtual Reality
- Visual Psychophysics
- Eye Movements and Hand-Eye Coordination
- Computational Modeling and Computer Vision
- Electrophysiology
- Clinical and Developmental Studies
- Brain Imaging
We are an interdisciplinary group based in the following departments at York University.
- Dept. of Psychology, Main Campus
- Dept. of Psychology, Atkinson College
- Dept. of Psychology, Glendon College
- Dept. of Biology
- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science
