Dr. Adar Pelah
 

Dr. Adar Pelah BSc, ScMEE, PhD (Cantab)

Reader in Electronics, Media Technology Stream Leader, Yorkshire Enterprise Fellow

Email: ap23@ohm.york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2364
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2335
Research Area: Intelligent Systems Group > Visual Systems Lab

Head: Laboratory for Investigative Virtual Environments (LIVE), Intelligent Systems Research Group

 

Research:

Virtual and augmented environments, 3D display methods, stroke, low vision and gait rehabilitation technology, locomotion simulators, human visuomotor interactions in locomotion, visual neurphysiology and perception.

 

Teaching:

Light and Vision, Interaction and Media, Advanced Media Systems, Research supervision for PhD, MSc, MEng, BEng.

Publications

  • Apfelbaum, A, Pelah, A, Peli, E, Collision detection by “tunnel vision” patients walking in a virtual environment, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 4(1)2007
  • Pelah, A, Koenderink, JJ, Walking in real and virtual environments, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 4(1)2007
  • Durgin, F H, Pelah, A, Fox, L F, Lewis, J, Kane, R, and Walley, K A, Self-motion perception during locomotor recalibration: More than meets the eye, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31:398-419, 2005
  • A.E.I. Thurrell and A. Pelah, Matching visual and non-visual signals: Evidence for a mechanism to discount optic flow during locomotion, Proc SPIE, 0-8194-5639-X, 2005
  • A. Pelah, R. Hucknall, R. Hedges, M. Turner, J. Shieh, H. Apfelbaum, E. Peli, Measures of obstacle avoidance while walking in a virtual environment by patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 43:3913, 2002
  • A.E.I. Thurrell, A. Pelah, Reduction of perceived visual speed during locomotion: Effect dependent upon stimulus similarity to the visual consequences of locomotion, Journal of Vision, 2:628, 2002
  • A. Pelah, A.E.I. Thurrell, M. Berry, Reduction of perceived visual speed during walking: Evidence against the involvement of attentional or vestibular mechanisms, Journal of Vision, 2:630, 2002
  • A. Pelah, A.E.I Thurrell, Reduction of perceived visual speed during locomotion: Evidence for quadrupedal perceptual pathways in human?, Journal of Vision, 1(3):307a, 2001
  • A.D. Kalvin, R.E. Rogowitz, A. Pelah, A. Cohen, Building perceptual color maps for visualizing interval data, Proc SPIE, 323-335, June, 2000
  • Pelah A, Lauritzen JS, Tolhurst DJ, A psychophysical method for measuring the perceptual importance of motion parallax using video sequences of real objects, Journal of Physiology, 527:4P, 2000
  • J.S. Lauritzen, A. Pelah, D.J. Tolhurst, Perceptual rules for watermarking images: a psychophysical study of the visual basis for digital pattern encryption, Proc SPIE, 392-402, May, 1999
  • A. Pelah, J.L Barbur, Processing the velocity of optic flow and controlling locomotion in the absence of V1, Invesitgative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40:4038, March, 1999
  • B.E. Rogowitz, A.D. Kalvin, A. Pelah, A. Cohen, Which trajectories through which perceptually uniform color spaces produce appropriate color scales for interval data?, IS&T Color Imaging Conference 7, 321-326, Scottsdale, Arizona, 0-89208-224-0, 1999
  • J.S. Lauritzen, A. Pelah, D.J. Tolhurst, A psychophysical test of the physiological model of the contrast of natural scenes, Journal of Physiology, 515P:102P, 1999
  • F.H. Durgin, A. Pelah, Visuomotor adaptation without vision, Experimental Brain Research, 127:12-18, 1999
  • Pelah, A, Boddy A, AAdaptive modulation of the motion after-effect by walking, Journal of Physiology, 506P:P111-P112, 1998
  • Durgin F, Pelah A, The role of optic flow in visuo-motor calibration during running, Journal of Physiology, 506P:111, 1998
  • Pelah, A, Secker, B, Bishop, A, Askham, C, A wide-field simulator for studying visuo-motor interactions in locomotion, Journal of Physiology, 506P:13-14, 1998
  • Mollon, JD, Pelah, A, The Kenneth Craik Club: A short history -Programme for Kenneth Craik Club 25th Anniversary Meeting, Cambridge, 22–23 August 1998, Kenneth Craik Club, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, England, 1998
  • Pelah, A, The vision of natural and complex images, Vision Research, 37:3201, 1997
  • Pelah A, Barlow HB, Visual illusion from running, Nature, 381:283, 1996
  • Pelah, A, Inverting the perceptual transform, 1-8, 1994
  • Pelah, A, Campbell FW, Visual detection of sampling and quantisation artifacts on sinusoidal luminance gradients, Proc SPIE, 242-252, 1993

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