Bei Xiao Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science
- Additional Positions at AU
- Faculty Member, Center of Behavioral Neuroscience
- Degrees
- Post-Doc, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania.
BS, Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China.
- Languages Spoken
- Python; C; R; JavaScript; Matlab
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- Don Myers Building
- Favorite Place in Washington DC
- Freer/Sackler Museum of Asian Art
- Book Currently Reading
- The last man who knows everything: The life and times of Enrico Fermi, the father of nuclear age.
- Bio
- Professor Xiao studies human and machine perception of object properties in dynamic scenes. She did her undergraduate work in chemistry at Tsinghua University. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and did her post-doctoral research at brain and cognitive sciences and CSAL at MIT, and The Smith-kettlewell Eye research Institute in San Francisco. At AU, she is particularly interested in exploring how human adults use multisensory inputs such as vision and haptics to make inferences of object physical properties in dynamic scenes. In the meantime, she is interested in applying perceptual results and models in simulation of virtual scenes using computer graphics that create rich multi-sensory experiences.
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
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Wenyan Bi. Newport, J, and Xiao, B. (In Press). Interaction between static visual cues and force feedback on perception of mass of visual objects. 2018 ACM Symposium of Applied Peception (SAP).
Wenyan B., Pin, J. Nienborg, H, and Xiao, B . (2018). Estimating mechanical properties of cloth from videos using dense motion trajectories: human psychophysics and machine learning. Journal of Vision, 18(5), 12-12.
Wenyan B. and Xiao, B. (2016). Perceptual constancy of mechanical properties of cloth under variation of external force. SAP ‘16, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied perception, 19-23.
Xiao,B. Wenyan, B, Xiaodan, J, Hanhan, W, and Edward., A. (2016) Can you see what you feel? Color and folding conditions affect visual-tactile material discrimination of fabrics. Journal of Vision, 2(1).
Xiao, B., Gkioulekas, I., Adelson, E., Zickler, T., and Bala, K. (2014). Looking against the light:How perception of translucency depends on lighting direction. Journal of Vision 14(3).
Akkaynak D., Treibitz T., Xiao, B . Gukan, U.A., Allen, J.J. Dermirci, U. and Hanlon, R.T. (2014) Use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) digital cameras for scientific data acquisition and scenespecific color calibration. Journal of Optical Society of America, A (31), 2
Bouman, K.L., Xiao, B . Bataglia, P., and Freeman, W.T. (2013). Estimating the Material Properties of Fabrics from Videos. International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV).
Gkioulekas. I., Xiao, B., Zhao. S., Adelson, E., Zickler,T., and Bala, K. (2012). Perceptual dimensions of phase functions for translucent appearance. ACM Transaction on Graphics (TOG).
Xiao, B. Hurst, B., Maclntyre, L. and Brainard, D.H. (2012) The Color Constancy of Three-Dimensional Objects. Journal of Vision. 12(4:6).
Xiao, B. and Wade, A.R. (2010) Measurements of long-range suppression in human opponent Scone and achromatic luminance channels. Journal of Vision 10(13):10.
Xiao, B. and Brainard, D.H. (2008) Surface gloss and color perception of 3D objects. Visual Neuroscience, 2008: 25:371-385
Xiao, B. and Brainard, D.H. Color Perception of 3D objects: constancy with respect to variation of surface gloss (2006). Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV06), 2006: 63-68.
Brainard, D.H., Longere, P., Delahunt, P.B., Freeman, W.T., Kraft, J.M., and Xiao, B . (2006). Bayesian model of human color constancy. Journal of Vision, 2006: 6, 1277-1281.
Research Interests
Human Vision, Multisensory Percpetion, VR, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Crowd-sourcing.