Recent News

October, 2009 - Elderlab study finds shape is key to rapid sighting of animals

May, 2009 - Tim Oleskiw wins second place award for best student poster at GEOIDE annual conference in Vancouver

October, 2008 - York Urban Line Segment Database launched

June, 2008 - GEOIDE Phase IV Pilot Project Kickoff Workshop

May, 2008 - Journal of Vision Special Issue on Perceptual Organization and Neural Computation

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Introduction to the Elder Laboratory

Our laboratory conducts research in human and computer vision. This research involves psychophysical experiments on human subjects, mathematical analysis of problem constraints, and development of computational models and algorithms.

The Elder laboratory is part of the York University Centre for Vision Research. Students in the laboratory are typically registered in Computer Science, Psychology or Mathematics Departments.

Our goals are to develop better theories of visual processing, as well as practical knowledge and algorithms that may be applied to problems in visual surveillance, remote learning and geomatics applications. We collaborate with a number of companies and government organizations on this applied research.

The laboratory is funded by grants and contracts from:

• The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• The Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA)
• Ontario Centres of Excellence: Earth and Environmental Technologies (OCE-ETch)
• Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
• Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE)

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