Arash Akbarinia
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
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| Aug 24, 2026 | I gave an invited talk on Spatiochromatic Representation in Discrete Autoencoders at the ECVP Symposium Artificial Intelligence as a Window into Material Perception. |
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| May 12, 2026 | Our article Human gloss perception reproduced by tiny neural networks is now published in Nature Human Behaviour. |
| Apr 13, 2026 | I was privileged to be invited to present my work on colour and object decoding from EEG at the Rank Prize Symposium on 21st Century Colour Vision. |
