Dr X. Michael Wang
@DrMichaelWXY
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VR Researcher | Everything Quant | Research Associate @UofTKPE
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2011
(Another) new paper alert 🚨 Relating visual and pictorial space: Integration of binocular disparity and motion parallax https://t.co/AnhnbWP7MM Four years in the making, this paper wraps up my postdoc work with @BioMotionLab @CentreforVisio1 @vistayorku
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We have evolved our @IEEEVR paper: EmBARDiment, and created a full OpenSource Unity toolkit for AI Agents with built native compatibility for Android XR, Android Mobile, or Desktop. https://t.co/s79lZ9sIV5 So you can all run experiments locally. With or without API keys.
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📖New publication with @DrMichaelWXY @DrTimWelsh exploring effects of noninvasive brain stimulation on physical and imagined movement
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Experimental Brain Research - Neural networks subserving motor imagery and action observation overlap with those involved in motor execution. The precise roles of specific cortical areas in these...
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Most multi-drone systems struggle with one thing: coordination under real-world constraints. A new paper in Science Robotics from TU Delft proposes a model-based approach that lets multiple quadrotors jointly move and orient a cable-suspended load. BUT: without relying on
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Sleep you at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Conference at 2pm. I'll be giving a talk with Drs. Hawa, Lee, and Earle on Emerging Therapeutics and Technologies in Sleep. Hoping for a great turnout! @CAMHnews @CPA_APC @UofTPsych @CanSleepSociety @AASMorg
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Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. https://t.co/oKawJAGyx1
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100k cycles of finger open & close. No motor overheating. Very little wear on the finger tendons. Tendon-driven hands don't usually publish their data on fatigue because tendon wear & tear is an unsolved problem. But we found a way.
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This is huge! A UCLA team managed to build an optical generative model that runs on light instead of GPUs. In their demo, a shallow encoder maps noise into phase patterns, which a free-space optical decoder then transforms into images—digits, fashion, butterflies, faces, even
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The real answer is that it’s a space-filling curve, which is the natural consequence of any surface of dimension n growing within a topological space of higher dimension. This, specifically, occurs because a 2-manifold (the cortex or cabbage sheaves) begins to grow within a
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This graffiti artist used a Quest to sketch out his piece first and then brought it to life with real spray paint. Source: @bondtruluv
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I finally solved player recognition - player and number detection with RF-DETR - player tracking with SAM2 - team clustering with SigLIP, UMAP and KMeans - number recognition with SmolVLM2 stay tuned for YT tutorial: https://t.co/6Iq051w9Tn ↓ full breakdown + code
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supervision, the open-source library I created almost 3 years ago, is crossing 35,000 stars on GitHub! supervision is the engine behind all my demos, including basketball AI. link: https://t.co/xXMRaS4ejS
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Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025) Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇 @ItalianAcademy @KriegeskorteLab @ZuckermanBrain @columbiacss @ColumbiaScience
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< Image as an IMU: Turning Motion Blur into a Velocity Sensor > In a new paper, researchers flip the script on motion blur. Instead of a problem to be fixed, they treat it as a rich signal for estimating a camera's instantaneous 6-DoF velocity From a single blurred image, their
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Great turnout for our first virtual Patient Engagement in #Parkinsons Research workshop @ParkinsonCanada today! Looking forward to continuing the discussions next time...
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🚨New vision paper on "Programmable Reality"* in @FrontVR we double down on the idea that "XR is to AI, what screens has been to computers" & then reimagine the principles + components that enable it in the real world. Certainly hoping to inspire durable lines of research.
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Friends don't let friends sit through 1000 trials to test the task works*.... Did you know you can simulate responses in PsychoPy? Install the PsychoPy "Monkeys" plugin and have a play! *Actually this is exactly what friends do 😅 - looking at you psychophysics people...
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Proud to have this article accepted, what feels like the culmination of my PhD and postdoc research! Here I propose the Sensory Conflict Hypothesis (SCH) of combined action observation and motor imagery (AOMI). https://t.co/8PJbKNkev9 1/7
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Unfolding spatiotemporal representations of 3D visual perception in the human brain https://t.co/V17wYN74lg
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Although visual input is initially recorded in two dimensions on our retinas, we perceive and interact with the world in three dimensions. Achieving 3D perception requires the brain to integrate 2D...
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New @biorxivpreprint: People with low vision—uncorrectable visual impairment that causes functional vision loss—can still adapt deliberately to motor errors, even when visual feedback is degraded. Welcoming any and all feedback! https://t.co/vARmNodMSp
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A very cool new finding from our lab! During a cooperative sensorimotor task, we show that involuntary visuomotor feedback responses reflect a representation of a partner. https://t.co/87z0NqV5O0 Led by the extremely talented, @SethSullivan_
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We have a remarkable ability to seamlessly and rapidly coordinate actions with others, from double dutch to dancing. Humans use high-level partner representations to jointly control voluntary...
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