Helmholtz Institute

Agenda

13 November 2026
16:00
Ruppert Blauw

Helmholtz Lecture Roland Fleming: Visual Perception – past, present and future

University of Giessen, Germany

Abstract: We’ve been studying visual perception for hundreds of years now. What have we learnt? Given what we know now, what are the grand open challenges for our field? And where does visual perception research fit in the ever-shifting landscape of AI, robotics and biomedical research? What does the future hold? While I obviously can’t answer all these questions, through a combination of some first principles philosophising, and a little speculation, I’ll try to adumbrate some suggestions.