Major Scientific Discoveries Lie Beyond the "Uncanny Valley" (part 1/8)

The lecture will focus on the recent scientific advances in developing realistic computer based simulations to mimic various phenomena that occur in the real world.

A major issue associated in creating truly believable computer based simulations is related to a phenomenon called the "uncanny valley" which relates to how humans observe and react to such simulations.

Climbing out of the "Uncanny Valley" - and towards perfect realism in a virtual world - is the biggest challenge to overcome in such computer simulations (e.g. computer graphics and animation). In fact this is now considered to be one of the holy grails in computer science.

The lecture will present how Visual Computing techniques will help to climb out of the uncanny valley and will discuss some of the major ground breaking scientific discoveries that would follow.

The lecture is delivered by the mathematician and computer scientist Professor Hassan Ugail from the School of Informatics, University of Bradford.

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Education

Tags:

• science
• mathematics
• Ugail
• animation
• 3d
• virtual reality
• technology