Do you know what you really see in daily life?
What you experience from vision is not the real external environment but the "visual world" created by your visual (neural) system. The information processing underlying the creation of the visual world is intelligent and reasonable for us to survive in different environments. The visual world you experience is a treasure trove of knowledge.
In Nagai Visual Perception Laboratory, we study such information processing in the human visual system.
News
20 September 2023, Li-san, Son-san, Nakajima-kun, and A/Prof. Nagai presented our research at the Summer Meeting of the Vision Society of Japan. Son-san won the Best Presentation Award! Congratulations!! I was sorry that Morishita-kun could not join us because of his health condition, though. I appreciate everyone’s efforts! Here are the titles of our presentations:
Yoshinori Morishita, Ichiro Kuriki, Takehiro Nagai: Investigation of color vision characteristics reflected in steady-state visual evoked potentials
Kenta Nakajima, Takehiro Nagai: An attempt to discriminate surface quality perception and affective impressions arising from object images based on EEG
Minwoo Son, Takehiro Nagai: Luminance and chromaticity discrimination characteristics when background luminance decreases abruptly
Kashi Li, Takehiro Nagai: The effect of color categories on color difference perception of various sizes
Takehiro Nagai, Ikuto Hanada: The relationship between the rarity of color distribution in visual environment and color preference in abstract paintings
31 August 2023: A/Prof Nagai has returned to Japan for a short time! Today, Aso-kun (a second-year master’s student) gave a presentation at the annual conference of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers. He did a great job, thanks to multiple practices in the lab! Well done, Aso-kun. Other students will present our research at more academic conferences, including the Vision Society of Japan’s Summer Meeting in Tokushima in September and the Optica Fall Vision Meeting in Seattle, USA, in October.
Takemichi Aso, Miyu Kunieda, Takehiro Nagai: Observation conditions and image features suitable for computer displays with low-luminance reproduction
25 June 2023: M1 student Hanada-kun made a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Color Science Association of Japan held on June 24th and 25th. We are delighted to announce that he received the Outstanding Presentation Award. Congratulations!
17 May 2023: A/Prof. Nagai will be away until approximately March 20, 2024, as he is staying in Australia. During his time there, he will be residing with A/Prof. Juno Kim at the University of New South Wales. They plan to conduct collaborative research focusing on the integration of virtual reality (VR) and material perception. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.