Computational vision
scientist, our Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar, who studies vision by but also outside
the computer, has recently co-authored and presented a unique research about
the applicability of visual attention theories in non human animals. The work
that featured in a special issue of the Journal Attention, Perception, &
Psychophysics, received some popular
media attention as during the Digital Week of the Psychonomic Society, all part of the
anniversary celebration of Anne Treisman’s Feature Integration Theory (FIT). Together with colleague
Ronen Segev, and the graduate student Adam Reichenthal, this work described how
certain visual capacities are very similar in humans and the archerfish, whose
brain structures are far different. The computational implications, both in
biology and technology, are now being investigated.
