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Overview

Walter F. Bischof is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines including neuroscience, computer science, and psychology, with specific contributions to cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, human-computer interaction, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics cover visual perception and processing mechanisms, visual attention and saliency detection, gaze tracking and assistive technology, face recognition and perception, action observation and synchronization, language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as child and animal learning development.

Bischof has published extensively in several prominent venues:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Vision
  • Current topics in behavioral neurosciences
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Journal of Cognition

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Turning the (virtual) world around: Patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation and shape in virtual reality" (2020, Journal of Vision)
  • "Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality" (2023, Current topics in behavioral neurosciences)
  • "Visual exploration of omnidirectional panoramic scenes" (2020, Journal of Vision)
  • "The impact of classroom seating location and computer use on student academic performance" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Eye and head movements while encoding and recognizing panoramic scenes in virtual reality" (2023, PLoS ONE)

Bischof frequently collaborates with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Alan Kingstone
  • Nicola Anderson
  • Tom Foulsham
  • Lucas Haraped
  • Michael T. Doswell

Their contributions to visual cognition and behavioral neuroscience are reflected in multiple studies involving eye movement and gaze tracking within virtual reality environments and panoramic scene perception. This includes analysis of saccade direction patterns and the relationship between eye and head movements during spatial encoding and recognition.

Overall, Bischof's body of work integrates cross-disciplinary methodologies to explore mechanisms of visual attention, perception, and interaction, especially within immersive technological contexts.

Best Publications

  • Social attention and real-world scenes: the roles of action, competition and social content.

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Lean on Wii: physical rehabilitation with virtual reality Wii peripherals.

    Fraser Anderson;Michelle Annett;Walter F. Bischof

  • Saliency does not account for fixations to eyes within social scenes.

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F. Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Gaze selection in complex social scenes

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F. Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Automated detection of breast tumors using the asymmetry approach

    Tin-Kit Lau;Walter F. Bischof

  • Thresholds From Psychometric Functions: Superiority of Bootstrap to Incremental and Probit Variance Estimators

    David H. Foster;Walter F. Bischof

  • A comparison of scanpath comparison methods

    Nicola C. Anderson;Fraser Anderson;Alan Kingstone;Walter F. Bischof

  • Recurrence quantification analysis of eye movements.

    Nicola C. Anderson;Walter F. Bischof;Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Evan F. Risko

  • Cognitive Ethology and exploring attention in real-world scenes

    Daniel Smilek;Elina Birmingham;David Cameron;Walter Bischof

  • Methods of Heuristics

    Rudolf Groner;Marina Groner;Walter F Bischof

  • Common reference frame for neural coding of translational and rotational optic flow

    D. R. W. Wylie;W. F. Bischof;B. J. Frost

  • Road tracking in aerial images based on human–computer interaction and Bayesian filtering

    Jun Zhou;Walter F. Bischof;Terry Caelli

  • Get real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F. Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Machine Learning and Image Interpretation

    Terry Caelli;Walter F. Bischof

  • Spatial Navigation in Virtual Reality Environments: An EEG Analysis

    Walter F. Bischof;Pierre Boulanger

  • Rapid serial visual distraction: Task-irrelevant items can produce an attentional blink

    Troy A.W. Visser;Walter F. Bischof;Vincent D.I. Lollo

  • Automated detection and classification of breast tumors

    Shun Leung Ng;Walter F. Bischof

  • Perception of directional sampled motion in relation to displacement and spatial frequency: Evidence for a unitary motion system

    W F Bischof;V Di Lollo

  • Bootstrap estimates of the statistical accuracy of thresholds obtained from psychometric functions.

    Foster Dh;Bischof Wf

  • Rulegraphs for graph matching in pattern recognition

    Adrian R. Pearce;Terry M. Caelli;Walter F. Bischof;Walter F. Bischof

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Terry Caelli
Terry Caelli Deakin University
Jun Zhou
Jun Zhou Griffith University
Vincent Di Lollo
Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University
Jason J. S. Barton
Jason J. S. Barton University of British Columbia
David H. Foster
David H. Foster University of Manchester
Pourang Irani
Pourang Irani University of Manitoba
Daniel Smilek
Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo
Fred W. Mast
Fred W. Mast University of Bern
Paul Henry Dietz
Paul Henry Dietz Misapplied Sciences, Inc.

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