Weight estimations with time-reversed point-light displays

Markerless motion-capture for point-light displays

Perceiving visual prosody from point-light displays

This study examined the perception of linguistic prosody from augmented point-light displays that were derived from motion tracking six talkers producing different prosodic contrasts. In Experiment 1, we determined perceivers’ ability to use these abstract visual displays to match prosody across modalities (audio to video), when the non-matching visual display was segmentally identical and diff...

Depth perception from point-light biological motion displays.

Humans have a clear impression of facing in depth for point-light biological motion. However, this has not been measured systematically nor is it known on which cues humans rely for their judgment. In the present study subjects judged the facing orientation-in-depth of point-light displays. The displays represented natural walking and modified versions in which the time sequence was reversed, a...

Recognition of animal locomotion from dynamic point-light displays.

To date, studies of biological motion have been restricted to displays of humans filmed (or synthesised by computer) with lights attached at the major joints. Observers can readily extract meaning from such displays. There have been no studies to assess the generality of this ability by assessing observers' accuracy in identifying various animals solely on the basis of biological motion. An exp...

Infants perceive human point-light displays as solid forms.

While five-month-old infants show orientation-specific sensitivity to changes in the motion and occlusion patterns of human point-light displays, it is not known whether infants are capable of binding a human representation to these displays. Furthermore, it has been suggested that infants do not encode the same physical properties for humans and material objects. To explore these issues we tes...