At Berkeley's Whitney Lab for Perception and Action, I am working on an exciting project that proposed the use of visual perception as a biometric. While other methods of biometric identification are vulnerable to identity theft once information is leaked, the visual perception of an individual in response to a novel stimulus is going to be new each time–like having a changing fingerprint.
Simultaneously, I’ve been investigating potential uses for the Berkeley Emotion and Affect Tracking (BEAT) database, which combines the dimensional ratings of valence and emotion with categories like ‘happy’ and ‘sad’. By analyzing these two methods, I aim to temporally measure the probability for each emotion to be perceived in a scene. I will be presenting these findings at the 2024 Vision Science Society conference.
