Heading Through a Crowd

© The Author(s) 2018. The ability to navigate through crowds of moving people accurately, efficiently, and without causing collisions is essential for our day-to-day lives. Vision provides key information about one’s own self-motion as well as the motions of other people in the crowd. These two...

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Main Authors: Riddell, Hugh, Lappe, M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80928
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description © The Author(s) 2018. The ability to navigate through crowds of moving people accurately, efficiently, and without causing collisions is essential for our day-to-day lives. Vision provides key information about one’s own self-motion as well as the motions of other people in the crowd. These two types of information (optic flow and biological motion) have each been investigated extensively; however, surprisingly little research has been dedicated to investigating how they are processed when presented concurrently. Here, we showed that patterns of biological motion have a negative impact on visual-heading estimation when people within the crowd move their limbs but do not move through the scene. Conversely, limb motion facilitates heading estimation when walkers move independently through the scene. Interestingly, this facilitation occurs for crowds containing both regular and perturbed depictions of humans, suggesting that it is likely caused by low-level motion cues inherent in the biological motion of other people.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-809282021-01-06T05:51:26Z Heading Through a Crowd Riddell, Hugh Lappe, M. biological motion heading navigation open data optic flow vision Adolescent Cues Female Humans Male Motion Perception Optic Flow Photic Stimulation Walking Young Adult © The Author(s) 2018. The ability to navigate through crowds of moving people accurately, efficiently, and without causing collisions is essential for our day-to-day lives. Vision provides key information about one’s own self-motion as well as the motions of other people in the crowd. These two types of information (optic flow and biological motion) have each been investigated extensively; however, surprisingly little research has been dedicated to investigating how they are processed when presented concurrently. Here, we showed that patterns of biological motion have a negative impact on visual-heading estimation when people within the crowd move their limbs but do not move through the scene. Conversely, limb motion facilitates heading estimation when walkers move independently through the scene. Interestingly, this facilitation occurs for crowds containing both regular and perturbed depictions of humans, suggesting that it is likely caused by low-level motion cues inherent in the biological motion of other people. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80928 10.1177/0956797618778498 eng restricted
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heading
navigation
open data
optic flow
vision
Adolescent
Cues
Female
Humans
Male
Motion Perception
Optic Flow
Photic Stimulation
Walking
Young Adult
Riddell, Hugh
Lappe, M.
Heading Through a Crowd
title Heading Through a Crowd
title_full Heading Through a Crowd
title_fullStr Heading Through a Crowd
title_full_unstemmed Heading Through a Crowd
title_short Heading Through a Crowd
title_sort heading through a crowd
topic biological motion
heading
navigation
open data
optic flow
vision
Adolescent
Cues
Female
Humans
Male
Motion Perception
Optic Flow
Photic Stimulation
Walking
Young Adult
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80928