Events

Regular research seminars are held with focus in two areas.

1. Computational modelling techniques are offered as a combination of workshops and lectures. Instruction includes Matlab toolkits for clustering neural networks, visual interface programs for Bayesian and Dynamic Bayesian networks and custom coding are taught for diffusion models.
2. Eye tracking workshops include both theoretical overview of the human visual system and practical implementation of eye tracking experiments. These workshops typically involve intensive full day or weekend introductions at least once per year as well as bimonthly sessions to improve skills.

Bimonthly group meetings are also held as a forum for open discussion, review of relevant literature, and group problem solving.

The ACME Research Seminar

Stage 2: 2018

• The 14th ACME Research Seminar took place on April 5, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  1_MacInnes_Overview and directions.pdf

Stage 1: 2017

• The 1st ACME Research Seminar took place on January 13, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  Computational modelling
• The 2nd ACME Research Seminar dedicated to salience models of vision and search took place on February 10, 2017.
  The presentation is available here: Salience models
• The 3rd ACME Research Seminar dedicated to diffusion models took place on March 3, 2017.
  The presentation is available here: Diffusion models
• The 4th ACME Research Seminar dedicated to Restricted Boltzman machines and saliency models evaluation took place on March 17, 2017.
  The presentations are available here:  Restricted_Boltzman_machines 
                                                               Information_Gain
• The 5th ACME Research Seminar dedicated to the upcoming international Eye tracking Conference in Poland took place on March 31, 2017.
  The presentations are available here:  Ardasheva 
                                                               Bhatnagar 
                                                               Malevich
• The 6th ACME Research Seminar took place on May 12, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  Merzon Zhulikov
• The 7th ACME Research Seminar took place on June 8, 2017.
  The presentation is availbale here:  Genetic algorithms and preprocessing
• The 8th ACME Research Seminar took place on September 7, 2017.
  The presentation is available here: Korotaev_TMS
• The 9th ACME Research Seminar took place on October 5, 2017.
• The 10th ACME Research Seminar took place on October 19, 2017.
  The presentations are available here: Malevich
                                                              MacInnes
• The 11th ACME Research Seminar took place on November 3, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  Bhatnagar
• The 12th ACME Research Seminar took place on November 17, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  Ivtushok
• The 13th ACME Research Seminar took place on December 13, 2017.
  The presentation is available here:  Rybina

Workshops

Stage 1: 2017

• The first session of the ACME Eye Tracking Workshop took place on February 4, at the School of Psychology.
  The presentation is available here: The eyes have it
• The first session of the ACME Psychtoolbox/Matlab Workshop took place on March 25, at the School of Psychology.
  The workshop materials are available here:  Sample_Code
• The ACME Workshop for scientific poster and presentation design took place on April 14, at the School of Psychology.
  The workshop materials are availbale here:  Data_Visualization1.pdf
  The poster templates:  Poster_Ardasheva.pdf
                                       Poster_Malevich.pdf
• The 2nd ACME Workshop for scientific poster and presentation design took place on August 17, at the School of Psychology.
  The workshop materials are available here:  Data_Visualization2.pdf
  The poster templates:  Poster_Kulikova.pdf
• The Weekend School / Workshop on Deep Learning Models of Human Vision took place on November 24–25, at the School of Psychology.
  The workshop materials are available here:  Zhulikov_NeuralNets.pdf
                                                                        MacInnes_RBMguide.pdf
• The second session of the ACME Eye-tracking workshop took place on November 30, at the School of Psychology.
  The workshop materials are available here:  SimplerSearch.zip

Java workshop

ACME is announcing an elective workshop on Java programming this year.

The meetings take place 'most' Thursday evenings from 7pm till 8:30 on Armianskii 4/2.

A few things to help you decide if you are interested:

• This is an unofficial elective/workshop, but Dr. Joe MacInnes (Associate Professor, School of Psychology) will teach it just like a first year introduction to computer science course, so it will be thorough.
• Why Java? It is a true programming language (unlike Matlab) and can be used to teach proper programming methods, structures and techniques. These techniques will serve you far beyond any single programming language (this will even help you in Matlab and Python).
• Java also has a great, free development environment called Eclipse that we will use. We start with basic programming skills, then on to data structures and Object Oriented Programming (OOP), then finally to Java and OpenGL graphics.

The workshop is held in English.

If you want to join the workshop, please contact the head of the ACME Group.

Stage 2: 2018

• The 8th session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on January 18, at the School of Psychology.
  The materials are available here:
  ProcessFile.java
  src.zip

Stage 1: 2017

• The first session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on September 21, at the School of Psychology.
  The presentation is available here: Java:Session1
• The second session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on September 28, at the School of Psychology.
  The sample code is available here:  SampleCode1
• The third session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on October 5, at the School of Psychology.
  The sample codes are available here:  Homework2 SampleCode2
• The forth session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on October 19, at the School of Psychology.
  The sample code is available here:  Homework3
• The fifth session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on October 26, at the School of Psychology.
  The sample codes are available here:  SampleEntryExpt.java  Trial.java
• The sixth session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on November 23, at the School of Psychology.
  The materials are available here:  Java_collections.pdf
• The seventh session of the ACME Java Workshop took place on December 7, at the School of Psychology.
  The materials are available here:  Source Code

Lectures

Stage 2: 2018

• An invited lecture by professor Árni Kristjánsson (University of Iceland): Single-target visual search tasks provide only a snap-shot of attentional orienting: New insights from visual foraging tasks.

Events we attended

Stage 1: 2017

• The Fifth, Jubilee edition of Polish Eyetracking Conference.

The Conference was organized by Neuro Device Group S.A. and The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and took in Lublin (Poland), April 21-23, 2017.

The following Group members presented the results of their research projects:

1. Doctor W. Joseph MacInnes, the head of the ACME Group: Comparison of temporal models for spatial cuing
   MacInnes
2. Anastasiya Lopukhina: Eye movement control in the visual world paradigm
     Lopukhina
3. Liubov Ardasheva: Development of a combined TMS/eye-tracking study for executive process
   Ardasheva
4. Tatiana Malevich: Combining EEG and eye tracking: a joint experiment with the exogenous orienting task
   Malevich
5. Alena Kulikova: Spatial attention, alertness and anti-saccades: a diffusion model analysis
   Kulikova
6. Roopali Bhatnagar: Testing multiple metrics for saccadic facilitation in a cueing task
   Bhatnagar

The conference materials are available here: conference_booklet.pdf

• The 40th European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP 2017

The conference took place in Berlin (Germany), 27–31 August 2017.

The following ACME members participated:

1. Doctor W. Joseph MacInnes, the head of the ACME Group
2. Tatiana Malevich: Early facilitation and perceptual merging: the role of alpha band power and neuronal dynamics in exogenous orienting
   Malevich_Nikulin_Blagovechtchenski_Iscan_MacInnes
3. Alena Kulikova: Spatial attention and eye movements: A diffusion model study
   Kulikova
4. Sofia Krasovskaya: Training restricted Boltzmann machines to generate human-like eye movements
   Krasovskaya_Zhulikov_MacInnes
5. Kirill Korotaev: Investigating links between artificial neural networks and human visual perception
   Korotaev_Zhulikov_MacInnes

The conference programme is available here: ECVP_2017

The conference materials are available here.

• The 19th European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM-2017

The conference took place in Wuppertal (Germany), 20–24 August 2017.

The following ACME members participated:

1. Anastasiya Lopukhina: Can the Eye-Mind Connection Be Broken in the Visual World Paradigm?
     Lopukhina

The conference programme is available here:  ECEM_2017

• The 'Data Analysis in Social Sciences' Summer School

The School took place in Dubna (Russia), 23 July – 7 August 2017.

The following ACME members participated:

1. Alena Kulikova
2. Elena Rybina
3. Liya Merzon

The project on programming and developing a neural network accomplished by the participants:
  net.R
  grad_check_and_visualization.R

• The Seminar of the Dr Raymond Klein's Lab at Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, the Dalhousie University (Canada) 

The event took place November 6, 2017

Dr W.J. MacInnes presented a talk 'IOR and facilitation.'
Attention lecture