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Christian Wallraven

Christian Wallraven

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Computer Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4981
World Ranking
10880
National Ranking
129

Overview

Christian Wallraven is affiliated with Korea University in South Korea and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Their work bridges multiple disciplines including Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, focusing on areas such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Social Psychology.

Wallraven's publications frequently appear in venues including arXiv (Cornell University), PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and Research Square. The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects such as Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, Emotion and Mood Recognition, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Face Recognition and Perception, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wallraven include the following:

  • Acoustic Cues Increase Situational Awareness in Accident Situations: A VR Car-Driving Study (2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Learning to Feel Textures: Predicting Perceptual Similarities From Unconstrained Finger-Surface Interactions (2022, IEEE Transactions on Haptics)
  • Predicting Driving Speed From Psychological Metrics in a Virtual Reality Car Driving Simulation (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Operant and Classical Learning Principles Underlying Mind-Body Interaction in Pain Modulation: A Pilot fMRI Study (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Predominance of Eyes and Surface Information for Face Race Categorization (2021, Scientific Reports)

The scientist often collaborates with colleagues including Uijong Ju, Yiyu Chen, Daehyun Cho, Taeho Kang, and Hoe Sung Ryu, with Uijong Ju being the most frequent co-author.

The collected body of work by Christian Wallraven reflects a diverse approach to understanding human perception and interaction within technological and psychological contexts. The research encompasses sensory modalities and cognitive processes, examining both artificial intelligence frameworks and experimental neuroscience methods.

Best Publications

  • Recognition with local features: the kernel recipe

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  • Biologically Motivated Computer Vision: Second International Workshop

    HH Bülthoff;Lee S-W, Poggio, Ta;C Wallraven

  • Do congenital prosopagnosia and the other-race effect affect the same face recognition mechanisms?

    Janina Esins;Johannes Schultz;Christian Wallraven;Isabelle Bülthoff

  • The MPI Facial Expression Database — A Validated Database of Emotional and Conversational Facial Expressions

    Kathrin Kaulard;Douglas W. Cunningham;Heinrich H. Bülthoff;Christian Wallraven

  • The contribution of different facial regions to the recognition of conversational expressions.

    Manfred Nusseck;Douglas W. Cunningham;Christian Wallraven;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Computational Modeling of Face Recognition Based on Psychophysical Experiments

    Adrian Schwaninger;Christian Wallraven;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Dynamic information for the recognition of conversational expressions

    Douglas W. Cunningham;Christian Wallraven

  • Evaluating the perceptual realism of animated facial expressions

    Christian Wallraven;Martin Breidt;Douglas W. Cunningham;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Experimental Design: From User Studies to Psychophysics

    Douglas Cunningham;Christian Wallraven

  • Multimodal similarity and categorization of novel, three-dimensional objects.

    Theresa Cooke;Frank Jäkel;Christian Wallraven;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Going into depth: Evaluating 2D and 3D cues for object classification on a new, large-scale object dataset

    Bjorn Browatzki;Jan Fischer;Birgit Graf;Heinrich H. Bulthoff

  • Perception-motivated interpolation of image sequences

    Timo Stich;Christian Linz;Christian Wallraven;Douglas Cunningham

  • Computational Aesthetics 2008: Categorizing art: Comparing humans and computers

    Christian Wallraven;Roland Fleming;Douglas Cunningham;Jaume Rigau

  • Active object recognition on a humanoid robot

    Bjorn Browatzki;Vadim Tikhanoff;Giorgio Metta;Heinrich H. Bulthoff

  • Visual and haptic perceptual spaces show high similarity in humans.

    Nina Gaissert;Christian Wallraven;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Abstract Representations of Associated Emotions in the Human Brain

    Junsuk Kim;Johannes Schultz;Tim Rohe;Christian Wallraven

  • 3FabRec: Fast Few-Shot Face Alignment by Reconstruction

    Bjorn Browatzki;Christian Wallraven

  • Processing of facial identity and expression: a psychophysical, physiological, and computational perspective.

    Adrian Schwaninger;Christian Wallraven;Douglas W. Cunningham;Sarah D. Chiller-Glaus

  • The Role of Perception for Computer Graphics

    Dirk Bartz;Douglas W. Cunningham;Jan Fischer;Christian Wallraven

  • The components of conversational facial expressions

    Douglas W. Cunningham;Mario Kleiner;Heirich H. Bülthoff;Christian Wallraven

  • Manipulating Video Sequences to Determine the Components of Conversational Facial Expressions

    Douglas W. Cunningham;Mario Kleiner;Christian Wallraven;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Adrian Schwaninger
Adrian Schwaninger University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Seong-Whan Lee
Seong-Whan Lee Korea University
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paul L. Rosin
Paul L. Rosin Cardiff University
Martin A. Giese
Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen
David A. Leopold
David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health
Fiona N. Newell
Fiona N. Newell Trinity College Dublin
Mateu Sbert
Mateu Sbert University of Girona
Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck Allen Institute for Brain Science

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