Roland W. Fleming, Ph.D.
Prof.
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
FB 06 Psychology and Sports-Sciences
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10F
35394 Giessen, Germany
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My research focusses on the visual perception of materials, objects and their physical properties. I use a combination of perceptual and behavioural methods, computer graphics, image analysis and computational modelling (including deep learning). My goal is to determine the cues and computations that the visual system uses to infer the appearance of surfaces and objects, categorise and interpret novel stimuli, predict their future behaviour and guide our physical interactions with them.
project-related publications
Cheeseman, J. R., Fleming, R. W., & *Schmidt, F.* (2022). Scale ambiguities in material recognition. iScience, 25(3), 103970.
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Filip, J., Lukavsky, J., Dechterenko, F., Fleming, R. , & Schmidt, F. (2023). Perceptual dimensions of wood materials. Journal of Vision, 24(5), 12-12.find paper, DATA
Flachot, A., Akbarinia, A., Schütt, H. H., Fleming, R. W., Wichmann, F. A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2022). Deep neural models for color classification and color constancy. Journal of Vision, 22(4), 17-17. find paper
Flachot, A., Akbarinia, A., Schütt, H.H., Fleming, R.W., Wichmann, F.A. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2022). Deep neural models for color discrimination and color constancy. Journal of Vision, 22(4), 17-17. find paper
Guerrero‐Viu, J., Subias, J. D., Serrano, A., Storrs, K. R., Fleming, R. W., Masia, B., & Gutierrez, D. (2024). Predicting Perceived Gloss: Do Weak Labels Suffice?. Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 43, No. 2, p. e15037).find paper, DATA
Hartmann, F., Maiello, G., Rothkopf, C. A., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). Estimation of Contact Regions Between Hands and Objects During Human Multi-Digit Grasping. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (194), e64877. find paper
Klein, L. K., Maiello, G., Stubbs, K., Proklova, D., Chen, J., Paulun, V. C., Culham, J. D., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). Distinct neural components of visually guided grasping during planning and execution. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(49), 8504-8514. find paper
Morgenstern, Y., Storrs, K. R., Schmidt, F., Hartmann, F., Tiedemann, H., Wagemans, J., & Fleming, R. W. (2024). High-level aftereffects reveal the role of statistical features in visual shape encoding. Current Biology. find paper
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Morimoto, T., Akbarinia, A., Storrs, K., Cheeseman, J. R., Smithson, H. E., Gegenfurtner, K. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). Color and gloss constancy under diverse lighting environments. Journal of Vision, 23(7), 8-8. find paper
Morimoto, T., Akbarinia, A., Storrs, K., Cheeseman, J. R., Smithson, H. E., Gegenfurtner, K. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). Color and gloss constancy under diverse lighting environments. Journal of Vision, 23(7), 8-8. find paper
Prokott, E., & Fleming, R. W. (2022). Identifying specular highlights: Insights from deep learning. Journal of Vision, 22(7), 6-6. find paper
Schmidt, F., Tiedemann, H., Fleming, R. W., & Morgenstern, Y. (2023). Inferring shape transformations in a drawing task. Memory & Cognition.
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Stewart, E. E. M., & Fleming R. W. (2023). The eyes anticipate where an object will move based on its shape. Current Biology, 33(17), R894-R895. find paper
Stewart, E. E., Fleming, R. W., & Schütz, A. C. (2023). A simple optical flow model explains why certain object viewpoints are special.bioRxiv, 2023-10. find paper preprint
Stewart, E. E., Hartmann, F. T., Morgenstern, Y., Storrs, K. R., Maiello, G., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). Mental object rotation based on two-dimensional visual representations. Current Biology, 32(21), R1224-R1225. find paper
Tamura, H., Prokott, K. E., & Fleming, R. W. (2022). Distinguishing mirror from glass: A “big data” approach to material perception. Journal of vision, 22(4), 4-4.
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Tiedemann, H., Morgenstern, Y., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2022). One-shot generalization in humans revealed through a drawing task. eLife 2022; 11:e75485.
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Tiedemann, H., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2022). Superordinate categorization based on the perceptual organization of parts. Brain Sciences, 12(5), 667. find paper
former project-related publications
Fleming RW & Schmidt F (2019). Getting ‘‘fumpered’’: Classifying objects by what has been done to them. Journal of Vision, 19(4):15
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Kunsberg B, Holtmann-Rice D, Alexander E, Cholewiak S, Fleming RW, Zucker SW. (2018). Colour, contours, shading and shape: flow interactions reveal anchor neighbourhoods. Interface Focus 8: 20180019.
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Maiello G, Paulun VC, Klein LK, & Fleming RW. (2018). The Sequential-Weight Illusion. i-Perception, 9(4), 1–6.
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Maiello, G., Paulun, V. C., Klein, L. K., & Fleming, R. W. (2019). Object visibility, not energy expenditure, accounts for spatial biases in human grasp selection. i-Perception.
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Schmidt F & Fleming RW (2018). Identifying shape transformations from photographs of real objects. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202115.
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Schmidt F, Phillips F, & Fleming RW (2019). Visual perception of shape-transforming processes: ‘Shape Scission’. Cognition, 189, 167-180.
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Schmidt, F., Hegele, M., & Fleming, R. W. (2017). Perceiving animacy from shape. Journal of Vision, 17(11), 10-10.
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Vangorp P, Barla, P & Fleming RW (2017). The perception of hazy gloss. Journal of Vision 17(5):19. doi: 10.1167/17.5.19
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Doerschner, K., Fleming, R. W., Yilmaz, O., Schrater, P. R., Hartung, B., & Kersten, D. (2011). Visual motion and the perception of surface material. Current Biology, 21(23), 2010-2016.
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Flachot, A., Akbarinia, A., Schütt, H. H., Fleming, R. W., Wichmann, F. A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2020). Deep Neural Models for color discrimination and color constancy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14402.
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Fleming, R. W. (2014). Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties. Vision Research, 94, 62-75.
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Fleming, R. W. (2017). Material Perception. Annual Reviews of Vision Science, 3, 8.1–8.24.
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Fleming, R. W., & Storrs, K. R. (2019). Learning to see stuff. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 30, 100-108.
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Klein, L. K., Maiello, G., Fleming, R. W., & Voudouris, D. (2021). Friction is preferred over grasp configuration in precision grip grasping. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125(4), 1330-1338.
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Klein, L. K., Maiello, G., Paulun, V. C., & Fleming, R. W. (2020). Predicting precision grip grasp locations on three-dimensional objects. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(8): e1008081.
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Morgenstern, Y., Hartmann, F., Schmidt, F., Tiedemann, H., Prokott, E., Maiello, G., & Fleming, R. W. (2021). An image-computable model of human visual shape similarity.PLOS Computational Biology, 17(6), e1008981. find paper.
Morgenstern, Y., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2019). One-shot categorization of novel object classes in humans. Vision research, 165, 98-108.
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Morgenstern, Y., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2020). A dataset for evaluating one-shot categorization of novel object classes. Data in brief, 29, 105302.
Muryy, A. A., Fleming, R. W., & Welchman, A. E. (2016). ‘Proto-rivalry’: how the binocular brain identifies gloss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 283, 20160383.
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Paulun, V. C., & Fleming, R. W. (2020). Visually inferring elasticity from the motion trajectory of bouncing cubes. Journal of Vision, 20(6), 6-6.
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Paulun, V. C., Buckingham, G., Goodale, M. A., & Fleming, R. W. (2019). The Material-Weight Illusion disappears or inverts in objects made of two materials. Journal of Neurophysiology. 121: 996-1010
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Paulun, V., Schmidt, F., van Assen, J. J. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2017). Shape, motion and optical cues to stiffness of elastic objects. Journal of Vision, 17(1):20, 1-22.
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Phillips, F. & Fleming, R. W. (2020). The Veiled Virgin illustrates visual segmentation of shape by cause. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (21), 11735-11743.
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Preißler, L., Jovanovic, B., Munzert, J., Schmidt, F., Fleming, R.W. & Schwarzer, G. (2021). Effects of visual and visual-haptic perception of material rigidity on reaching and grasping in the course of development. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103457.
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Prokott, K. E., Tamura, H., & Fleming, R. W. (2021). Gloss perception: Searching for a deep neural network that behaves like humans. Journal of Vision, 21(12), 14-14.
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Ritchie, J. B., Paulun, V. C., Storrs, K. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2021). Material perception for philosophers. Philosophy Compass, e12777.
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Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2016). Visual perception of complex shape-transforming processes. Cognitive Psychology, 90, 48-70.
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Schmidt, F., Fleming, R. W., & Valsecchi, M. (2020). Softness and weight from shape: Material properties inferred from local shape features. Journal of Vision, 20(6), 2-2.
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Schmidt, F., Kleis, J., Morgenstern, Y., & Fleming, R. W. (2020). The role of semantics in the perceptual organization of shape. Scientific Reports, 10/, 22141.
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Schmidt, F., Paulun, V. C., van Assen, J. J. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2017). Inferring the stiffness of unfamiliar objects from optical, shape, and motion cues. Journal of Vision, 17(3):18, 1-17.
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Schmidt, F., Spröte, P., & Fleming, R. W. (2016). Perception of shape and space across rigid transformations. Vision Research, 126, 318-329.
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Spröte, P., & Fleming, R. W. (2016). Bent out of shape: The visual inference of non-rigid shape transformations applied to objects. Vision Research,126, 330-346.
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Spröte, P., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R.W. (2016). Visual perception of shape altered by inferred causal history. Scientific Reports, 6:36245.
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Storrs, K. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2021). Learning about the world by learning about images. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(2), 120-128.
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Storrs, K. R., Anderson, B. L., & Fleming, R. W. (2021). Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-16.
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Toscani, M., Milojevic, Z., Fleming, R. W., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2020). Color consistency in the appearance of bleached fabrics. Journal of Vision, 20(4), 11-11.
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van Assen, J. J. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2016). Influence of optical material properties on the perception of liquids. Journal of Vision, 16(15):12, 1–20.
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Van Assen, J. J. R., Barla, P., & Fleming, R. W. (2018). Visual features in the perception of liquids. Current Biology, 28(3), 452-458.
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Van Assen, J. J. R., Nishida, S., & Fleming, R. W. (2020). Visual perception of liquids: Insights from deep neural networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(8): e1008018.
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Vergne, R., Barla, P., Bonneau, G. P., & Fleming, R. (2016). Flow-Guided Warping for Image-Based Shape Manipulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 35(4): 93.
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Zöller, A. C., Lezkan, A., Paulun, V. C., Fleming, R. W., & Drewing, K. (2018, June). Influence of Different Types of Prior Knowledge on Haptic Exploration of Soft Objects. In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (pp. 413-424). Springer, Cham.
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