Happy to share our new paper in JOV! 🎉 MooneyMaker automates the creation of ambiguous Mooney images, so you don’t have to create them manually. Thread in the original post. doi.org/10.1167/jov.... Thanks to Thabo Matthies, Luisa Haussner, Rabea Turon and @tsawallis.bsky.social!

MooneyMaker: A Python package to create ambiguous two-tone images | JOV | ARVO Journals

Purchase this article with an account.

doi.org

Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 3w ago

What object or item is depicted in this image?

Hey @ecvp.bsky.social we got twice the fun for you today (order of visit recommended): T5AM6 Swantje will talk about Dead Leaves stimuli with which you can model natural image statistics. T5AM1 @lreining.bsky.social will talk about how to segment these dead leaves, testing NNs for optimality.

Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab is at #ECVP2026 in force. We hope you can make it to see our work! @engramm.ing @lreining.bsky.social @lschmittwilken.bsky.social

TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab is at #ECVP2026 in force. We hope you can make it to see our work! @engramm.ing @lreining.bsky.social @lschmittwilken.bsky.social

Excited this is finally out! I am happy to have built this together with Rabea Turon, @tsawallis.bsky.social and all the others!🎉

Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@lreining.bsky.social presented the talk 'Regularization more than representational capacity drives heuristic discovery in Bounded Meta-Learned Inference' at #cogsci2026. The work, together with Finn Radatz & Nora Cremille came out of a course project in our MSc Cognitive Science program.

I'm incredibly happy to attend #CogSci2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro🌴🥥☀️! Tomorrow at 11:50 I'll give a talk showing that regularization drives heuristic discovery in Bounded Meta-Learned Inference more than representational capacity. Find me in Vidigal ABC!

Good morning #ECVP! Today, two of my colleagues are presenting their posters in the morning and afternoon session 🎉 Lina will introduce you to (mismatching) causal relationships and @lreining.bsky.social will introduce you to MooneyMaker, a Python package to create ambiguous two-tone images.

I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work! @ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social

New paper from my lab, with stellar TU Darmstadt Master student @lreining.bsky.social (this was Lars' Bachelor thesis!): “A psychophysical evaluation of techniques for Mooney image generation”. peerj.com/articles/180...