Arash Akbarinia

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Alter Steinbacher Weg 38

Giessen D-35394, Germany

+49 641 99 26137

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University Leipzig, and a Research Scientist at the Visual Cognition & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Justus Liebig University Giessen.

I wonder what makes us different from robots. We’re intelligent biological animals with an immense imaginative perceptual capability. Machines match this intelligence on various isolated functions and I believe, soon, they reach our creative perception. That’s my research interest.

I work in this multidisciplinary domain of brains, minds and machines, aiming to answer how complex behaviour arises from neuronal activity. I compare the neural networks of two organisations: biological versus artificial.

My focus is visual information processing: oscillating in-between psychophysics of visual perception and computational modelling of vision

news

Nov 14, 2025 It was my pleasure to serve as a tribunal member for the PhD thesis entitled Perceptual Alignment in Artificial Vision at the Universitat de València.
Nov 5, 2025 I’m excited to have been invited to AIVO to give a talk on Colour Vision in Artificial Networks.
Aug 26, 2025 Tomorrow, I’ll give a talk at ECVP on reading colours from EEG waves.

selected publications

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    The hallmark of colour in EEG signal
    Arash Akbarinia
    bioRxiv, 2025
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    Exploring the Categorical Nature of Colour Perception: Insights from Artificial Networks
    Arash Akbarinia
    Neural Networks, Sep 2024
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    Contrast sensitivity function in deep networks
    Arash Akbarinia, Yaniv Morgenstern, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner
    Neural Networks, Sep 2023
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    Colour constancy beyond the classical receptive field
    Arash Akbarinia, and C Alejandro Parraga
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Sep 2017