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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Last day of a fantastic #ecvp2026! 🎉 I’m excited to present my most recent work at 10:30am in Bayview. I’ll argue that eye movements are a crucial part of the visual input itself, and that we naturally use them to optimally encode relevant stimulus properties Hope to see you there! 👀

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Adaptive experiments in high-dimensional feature spaces: A particle filtering approach

Behavioral experiments are often infeasible when stimulus spaces have many dimensions or when testing time is limited. One way to address this challenge is adaptive stimulus selection, where informati...

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We hope the package will be useful for your research! If you use it, let us know. If you like it, please share or repost so others can discover it as well 🍁

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Deadleaves can: • generate cluttered visual scenes with customizable statistics for vision science and machine learning • choose from multiple shapes, color spaces, and distributions • add textures, noise, motion and dependencies between leaves • have full segmentation maps

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So happy to see this published! 🎉 Meet **deadleaves**, an #OpenScience Python package for generating Dead Leaves images to study #vision, segmentation, natural image statistics, and beyond. 📄 Paper (JOSS): doi.org/10.21105/jos... 📚 Documentation: deadleaves.readthedocs.io For more info 🧵

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Interesting question! The closest connection I see is that perception and action are tightly coupled and influence each other. Our work doesn't really speak to the underlying causes or neural architecture though. We were mainly interested in how these movements impact visual representations

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The final Glushko Dissertation Prize talk features Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social, who examines how the tiny movements our eyes make continuously shape visual perception from its earliest moments. #CogSci2026

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm incredibly honored to have been awarded the Glushko Dissertation Award! 🎓 Thanks to everyone who supported me along the way. If you're at #CogSci2026 in Rio 🇧🇷, I'll be presenting on Saturday at 12:25PM. I'd love to see familiar faces and meet new ones; excited for some great discussions!

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Curious how tiny eye movements shape the visual input? Our new paper integrates spatiotemporal encoding into the standard model of #earlyvision. We suggest that models may be biased towards purely spatial perspectives—inviting us to rethink our view on early visual mechanisms doi.org/10.1167/jov....

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Ocular drift shakes the stationary view on pattern vision | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Very excited to have @lschmittwilken.bsky.social start today as a postdoc in my lab! If today’s heatwave in Darmstadt is any indication, be prepared for some 🔥 work coming out of this collaboration in the future!

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Not tired of talking science yet? Come visit me at 2.45pm in Banyan to learn how we used #drawing to probe #earlyvision in natural scenes. With this approach, we reproduce traditional psychophysics measures, while preserving a rich behavioral dataset for additional analyses #vss #vss2025

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Sorry for the spam! Someone recommended a tool to import a selection of X tweets, which turned out to be a horrible idea 🙏🏽

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Not tired yet of talking science? Then come visit me at my poster this morning (Mo, 8.30-12.30; Pavilion) to learn about a new #fovealPerimetry that provides new and unexpected insights into visual sensitivity patterns at the foveal scale #vss #vss2024 t.co/PxnSwvGI5g

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 18/06/2023

First and foremost, you can find all information about stimupy, what it contains, how to install and use it, and how to contribute to the project here: t.co/5M0xx8OidO

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 18/06/2023

So proud to see this published. Discover stimupy – an #openscience Python package to support and automatize creating visual stimuli as used in the study of (early) #visualprocessing. Useful for #psychophysics, computational modeling, and teaching. For details, see this 🧵 t.co/KFqwt1cD2b

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

I hope everyone is having a blast at #vss2023! Consider visiting us at (1) our demo in which you can explore how #stimupy can help you with generating visual stimuli, and (2) our poster in which we ask how edge sensitivity is different from sinusoidal contrast sensitivity. 🧵

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 04/03/2023

Hard to believe that my first week as the newest member of @aplabUR @UofR is coming to an end. Thanks to everyone in- and off-campus for the warm welcome and for all the new, exciting insights! Looking forward to be working with my new amazing colleagues in the year to come🤓

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 29/08/2022

Very excited to give a talk at #ecvp2022 (5pm, Object Perception I) about a very exploratory project in which we wanted to see how re-thinking our idea of retinal images might affect information processing in CNNs (... yes, there will be images of cats and dogs🐈‍⬛🐕) t.co/nsla0bdAOx

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 28/08/2022

First day of #ecvp2022! I am excited to give a tutorial together with @JorisVincent focusing on how spectral analysis is a relevant tool for vision scientists. If you cannot make it to the workshop, you can explore all the materials interactively here: t.co/BGriSpOBmM

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 16/07/2022

Very excited to see my first PhD-related paper being published 🎓 We propose an active model of human edge perception in which edges emerge as a direct consequence of small ocular drift motions and the spatiotemporal sensitivity of the visual system. Check this 🧵 for more info t.co/BBfmV3iQMb

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Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 19/05/2021

Only two more days until #VSS2021. If you are curious about #activevision and how fixational eye movements could contribute to human #EdgeDetection and lightness perception, come and visit me at my poster I43 (Wed 8:00 am EDT | 2:00 pm CEST, Manatee) t.co/aJme2qdwHw

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