2022-23 Speakers

• Dr Matthew Pelowski, University of Vienna, Uncovering the Muse: Can we really 'read' art to 'see' the changing brain - ideas from early work looking into links between neurodegeneration and artistic activity
• Dr Oktay Karakus, Cardiff University, Can Remote Sensing Computational Imaging Help Fight Environmental Challenges?
• Professor Tim Smith, Birbeck University of London, Our Mediated Minds: the bidirectional relationship between audiovisual media and cognitive development
• Michael Pitts, Emmy Award winning Underwater Cinematographer, In at the Deep End - capturing drama and detail underwater
• Professor Monica Castelhano, Queen's University Canada, Attention Depends on Context: What the eyes can and can’t tell us about processing
• Dr Kata Szita, Trinity College Dublin, HUMANXR: Mapping social behaviour in virtual and augmented reality
• Dr Paul Bodesheim, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Continuous Learning for Long-Term Visual Monitoring

2021-22 Speakers

• Professor Atau Tanaka, Professor of Media Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London - Immersive Pipeline: Social, visceral audiovisual projection and performance

2020-21 Speakers

• Professor Marc Holderied, Professor of Sensory Ecology, School of Biological Science, University of Bristol - Seeing with sound - acoustic camouflage against biosonar
• Dr Laszlo Talas and Dr John Fennell, Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol - From camouflage to cattle: machine learning approaches in animal sensing and biometrics
• Becky Maguire, Postgraduate Researcher, University of St Andrews - Searching in clutter: The effect of feature congestion in leaf litter
• Professor Melissa Le-Hoa Vo, Institute of Psychology, Goethe University of Frankfurt 
• Ruth Rosenholtz, Principal Research Scientist Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Demystifying the richness of visual perception
• Dejan Draschkow, Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology, St John’s College Oxford - Immersive Working Memory: Natural Usage and Spatial Frames
• BVI Management team, University of Bristol, Introduction to Bristol Vision Institute
• Dr James Barnett, Postdoctoral Researcher, McMaster University - Find the frog: frog camouflage and a changing visual environment
• Professor Kirsten Cater, (University of Bristol) Professor Mandy Rose, (UWE) and Professor Danae Stanton Fraser, (University of Bath) - Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters
• Dr Pui Anantrasirichai and Dr Paul Hill, Research Fellows in the Visual Information Laboratory, University of Bristol - Learning-based detection and time-series prediction of ground motion InSAR data

2019-20 Speakers

• Dr Tilo Burghardt, Department of Computer Science, Visual Information Laboratory, SPHERE, Intelligent Systems Laboratory (University of Bristol): 'Frontiers in Animal Biometrics'
• Dr Jenny Bosten, Senior Lecturer in Psychology (University of Sussex): "Calibrating colour vision"
• Dr Ed Vessel (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt): "Visual Aesthetics and the Brain’s “Default-Mode” Network"
• Dr David Glowacki, Royal Society Research Fellow (University of Bristol): "Designing multi-person VR to elicit mystical-type experiences comparable to psychedelics"
• Dr Isabelle Mareschal (Queen Mary University of London): "Other person perception in adults and children reveals fundamental trait characteristics"
• Dr Rosie Clark, Dr Jasmina Stevanov, Dr Brian Sullivan, Dr Aaron Zhang, Dr Paul Hill (University of Bristol): Overview of recently funded 'Vision for the Future' projects
• John Bridle (Apple): "How does Siri hear you?"
• John Durrant (BDH): "Smoke, Mirrors and Creative Storytelling - helping audiences gain knowledge through experience"
• Professor Laura Mickes, Department of Psychological Science (University of Bristol): "Can eyewitness memory be exonerated?"

2018-19 Speakers

• Dr Kristian Moen (University of Bristol): Watching Animation in New York: Kinetic advertising, art and design ca. 1939
• Professor Steve Benford - Mixed Reality Lab (University of Nottingham): Playing with Sensory Alignment
• Dr Michael Bok (University of Bristol): How do many-eyed animals see the world? Natural models for distributed visual sensor arrays
• Dr Tom Pike (University of Lincoln): Using virtual reality to explore animal perception and behaviour
• Associate Professor Dima Damen (University of Bristol): A fine-grained perspective onto object interactions from first-person views
• Professor Pat Healey (Queen Mary University, University of London): The social dynamics of live audiences
• Dr James Herbert-Read (University of Bristol): Animal groups as mobile sensor networks
• Dr Anna Stoeckl (Wuerzburg University, Germany): Spatial processing in hawkmoth vision - neural mechanisms and behavioural consequences
• Professor Nick Kingsbury (University of Cambridge):Combining complex wavelets with deep networks: aiming to improve learning efficiency for vision systems
• Professor Chris Harris (University of Plymouth): Do reaction time distributions tell us anything?
• Professor Silvio Wolf (Visual Artist and Professor): On the threshold - the experience of space in photography and site-specific installation
• Professor Alan Kingstone (University of British Columbia): Breaking the fourth wall of cognitive science: Attention in the lab and in the wild

2017-18 Speakers

• Professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol): Bristol Cinema in Colour: Creativity, Culture and the Negotiation of Innovation
• Professor Andrew Wallace (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh): What if it rains? Sensing for vehicle autonomy in bad weather
• Dr Andrew Calway (University of Bristol): Localisation and Mapping using Computer Vision
• Dr Ute Leonards (University of Bristol): Walking the Walk - the impact of the visual environment on locomotion
• Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney (Oxford University): What makes an eye? An exploration of vision in 'blind' animals
• Dr Filipe Cristino (Nottingham Trent University): The role of eye movement during object recognition
• Dr Martin Rolfs (Humboldt-University of Berlin): Perceptual continuity in active vision 
• Dr Harriet Allen (University of Nottingham): What good is depth perception?

2016-17 Speakers

• Dr Sotirios Tsaftaris (Edinburgh University): Learning to synthesize signals and images
• Dr Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam): Action localization without spatiotemporal supervision
• Dr Fred Stentiford (UCL): Pattern Recognition without Features or Training
• Dr Stephen Hicks (Oxford University): Augmenting vision, the easy & the hard way
• Robert Pepperell (Cardiff Metropolitan Univerity): New technologies for improving the representation of human vision
• Clare Bailey (University of Bristol): Clinical research at Bristol Eye Hospital
• Zhaoping Li (University College London): Exogenous visual attention and the primary visual cortex
• Tim Meese (Birmingham University): Psychophysical probes into spatial vision: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
• László ​Tálas (University of Bristol): Visual concealment as foreign policy: camouflage as signaling friends & foes
• Anna Hughes (University College London): Diverted by dazzle: testing the ‘motion dazzle’ hypothesis
• Brian Sullivan (University of Bristol): Eye Movements in Low & Normally Sighted Vision
• Jasna Martinovic (University of Aberdeen): Attentional selection of colour is determined by both cone-based & hue-based representation

2016 speakers and earlier...

• Julien Renoult (Université Paul Valéry): The role of visual systems in evolution of communication
• Josiane Zerubia (Ayin project): Marked point of processes for object detection and tracking in high resolution images
• Colin Jackson (BBC Natural History Unit): Filming the unpredictable - the technological challenges facing wildlife filmmaking
• Darren Cosker (Bath University): Dynamic Facial Processing and Capture
• Jolyon Troscianko (University of Exeter): The effectiveness of camouflage; predator learning and new modelling approaches
• Josiane Zerubia (The Ayin project): Marked Point Processes for Object Detection and Tracking in High Resolution Images: Applications to Remote Sensing and Biology
• Andrew Lawrie (University of Bristol): iScope: a framework for visionary computations
• Karin Kjernsmo (University of Bristol): Fake eyes? - How Eyespots work
• Daniel Osorio (University of Sussex): Cuttlefish vision in a 3-D world.
• Jon Erichsen (Cardiff University): Dispatches from the avian front: Using visuomotor behaviour to assess perception
• David Bull (University of Bristol): 10,000:1 The challenge for perceptual video compression
• Marina Bloj (Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Sciences): Remembering object colours
• Professor Andrew Schofield, (University of Birmingham): Seeing shadows in the twilight of life
• Dr Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College, London): Sampling and Reconstruction driven by Sparsity Models: Theory and Applications
• Benjamin Meaker Fellow Dr Andrew B Watson (Senior Scientist for Vision Research and Director of the Vision Group at NASA Ames Research Center): The Windows of Visibility: Limits to human vision and their application to visual technology
• Dr Christopher Hassall (University of Leeds): The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry
• Ron Douglas (City University London): The reindeer’s rainbow: How sensitive are mammals to UV?