Oculo-motor stabilization reflexes: integration of inertial and visual information.

STABILIZATION OF GAZE IS A FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT OF AN ACTIVE VISUAL SYSTEM FOR AT LEAST TWO REASONS: (i) to increase the robustness of dynamic visual measures during observer's motion; (ii) to provide a reference with respect to the environment ([Ballard and Brown, 1992]). The aim of this paper is to address the former issue by investigating the role of integration of visuo-inertial information in gaze stabilization. The rationale comes from observations of how the stabilization problem is solved in biological systems and experimental results based on an artificial visual system equipped with space-variant visual sensors and an inertial sensor are presented.

Evaluating perception in driving simulation experiments.

The use of driving simulation for vehicle design and driver perception studies is expanding rapidly. This is largely because simulation saves engineering time and costs, and can be used for studies of road and traffic safety. How applicable driving simulation is to the real world is unclear however, because analyses of perceptual criteria carried out in driving simulation experiments are controversial.

Absolute distance perception during in-depth head movement: calibrating optic flow with extra-retinal information.

We investigated the ability of monocular human observer to scale absolute distance during sagittal head motion in the presence of pure optic flow information. Subjects were presented at eye-level computer-generated spheres (covered with randomly distributed dots) placed at several distances. We compared the condition of self-motion (SM) versus object-motion (OM) using equivalent optic flow field.