Vision and Emotion Team

Vision is not simple retinal image processing (visual sensory inputs), but strongly depends on goals and actions. Indeed, humans are active in vision. For example, we actively and rapidly move our eyes to bring different parts of the visual field into the fovea (the central region of the retina that provides the greatest visual acuity), presumably to ensure we have the best information to achieve our goals. However, eye movements, or saccades, significantly disrupt vision, making coordination between sensory and motor processes essential for active vision. Additionally, the brain continually generates predictions, derived from internal models, to anticipate perceptual, emotional, and socio-emotional events. The main objective of the VisEmo team is to understand the interactions between sensory information, active vision and proactive vision to cope with perceptual and emotional events, through bio-inspired modeling and behavioral measurements , physiological and neurophysiological on healthy and pathological subjects. Our research themes are grouped into four main axes..

• Axis 1. Visual sensory inputs
• Axis 2. Active vision and eye movements
• Axis 3. Proactive vision and emotional experience
• Axis 4. Perceptual awareness and metacognition

A large part of our research has clinical applications, mainly in the field of diagnosis and remediation, but also industrial applications, in particular with the development of new algorithms to increase the quality of images from digital cameras.