An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of ...

Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren't actually there.

In the rapid evolution of multimodal large models, the visual module has always been a key cornerstone supporting the entire ...

Using light as a decoder for a diffusion-based image generator, scientists show that improvements can be made to make AI ...

The first author, Liu Yanqing, graduated from Zhejiang University and is currently a PhD student at UCSC, focusing on multimodal understanding, visual-language pretraining, and visual foundation ...

Learn how the brain handles certain optical illusions, causing us to perceive shapes that don't actually exist.

When researchers are building large language models (LLMs), they aim to maximize performance under a particular computational ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing details in vision.

Our brains fall for optical illusions due to perception tricks, as revealed in a new study on illusory contours.