Postdoc #visionscience @TUDarmstadt | Interested in #activevision | First genhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3mu27qtxkl22qLast day of a fantastic #ecvp2026! 🎉 I’m excited to present my most recent work at 10:30am in Bayview. I’ll argue that eye movements are a crucial part of the visual input itself, and that we naturally use them to optimally encode relevant stimulus properties Hope to see you there! 👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu27qtxkl22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3msafcnpfqc2tSo happy to see this published! 🎉 Meet **deadleaves**, an #OpenScience Python package for generating Dead Leaves images to study #vision, segmentation, natural image statistics, and beyond. 📄 Paper (JOSS): https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.10531 📚 Documentation: deadleaves.readthedocs.io For more info 🧵04 Aug 2026 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3msafcnpfqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3mrah5fwuvc24I'm incredibly honored to have been awarded the Glushko Dissertation Award! 🎓 Thanks to everyone who supported me along the way. If you're at #CogSci2026 in Rio 🇧🇷, I'll be presenting on Saturday at 12:25PM. I'd love to see familiar faces and meet new ones; excited for some great discussions!22 Jul 2026 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrah5fwuvc24https://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lvpstlljs22lCurious how tiny eye movements shape the visual input? Our new paper integrates spatiotemporal encoding into the standard model of #earlyvision. We suggest that models may be biased towards purely spatial perspectives—inviting us to rethink our view on early visual mechanisms https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.8.1706 Aug 2025 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvpstlljs22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lphgq3hczk2dNot tired of talking science yet? Come visit me at 2.45pm in Banyan to learn how we used #drawing to probe #earlyvision in natural scenes. With this approach, we reproduce traditional psychophysics measures, while preserving a rich behavioral dataset for additional analyses #vss #vss202518 May 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lphgq3hczk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lcco5kysis2kSorry for the spam! Someone recommended a tool to import a selection of X tweets, which turned out to be a horrible idea 🙏🏽02 Dec 2024 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcco5kysis2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfgmlqo25Not tired yet of talking science? Then come visit me at my poster this morning (Mo, 8.30-12.30; Pavilion) to learn about a new #fovealPerimetry that provides new and unexpected insights into visual sensitivity patterns at the foveal scale #vss #vss2024 https://t.co/PxnSwvGI5g20 May 2024 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfgmlqo25https://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfkzpru24First and foremost, you can find all information about stimupy, what it contains, how to install and use it, and how to contribute to the project here: https://t.co/5M0xx8OidO18 Jun 2023 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfkzpru24https://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfnkv662qSo proud to see this published. Discover stimupy – an #openscience Python package to support and automatize creating visual stimuli as used in the study of (early) #visualprocessing. Useful for #psychophysics, computational modeling, and teaching. For details, see this 🧵 https://t.co/KFqwt1cD2b18 Jun 2023 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfnkv662qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfpqnck2fI hope everyone is having a blast at #vss2023! Consider visiting us at (1) our demo in which you can explore how #stimupy can help you with generating visual stimuli, and (2) our poster in which we ask how edge sensitivity is different from sinusoidal contrast sensitivity. 🧵20 May 2023 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfpqnck2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfqktfo2sHard to believe that my first week as the newest member of @aplabUR @UofR is coming to an end. Thanks to everyone in- and off-campus for the warm welcome and for all the new, exciting insights! Looking forward to be working with my new amazing colleagues in the year to come🤓04 Mar 2023 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfqktfo2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfrfvmg2sVery excited to give a talk at #ecvp2022 (5pm, Object Perception I) about a very exploratory project in which we wanted to see how re-thinking our idea of retinal images might affect information processing in CNNs (... yes, there will be images of cats and dogs🐈‍⬛🐕) https://t.co/nsla0bdAOx29 Aug 2022 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfrfvmg2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfsialu24First day of #ecvp2022! I am excited to give a tutorial together with @JorisVincent focusing on how spectral analysis is a relevant tool for vision scientists. If you cannot make it to the workshop, you can explore all the materials interactively here: https://t.co/BGriSpOBmM28 Aug 2022 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfsialu24https://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccnfyfixf2eVery excited to see my first PhD-related paper being published 🎓 We propose an active model of human edge perception in which edges emerge as a direct consequence of small ocular drift motions and the spatiotemporal sensitivity of the visual system. Check this 🧵 for more info https://t.co/BBfmV3iQMb16 Jul 2022 05:03 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccnfyfixf2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/lschmittwilken.bsky.social/post/3lccngabipi2yOnly two more days until #VSS2021. If you are curious about #activevision and how fixational eye movements could contribute to human #EdgeDetection and lightness perception, come and visit me at my poster I43 (Wed 8:00 am EDT | 2:00 pm CEST, Manatee) https://t.co/aJme2qdwHw19 May 2021 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:7wqle5zst5ytnwvaeeph2cly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccngabipi2y