Wenyan Bi

Perception of soft materials relies on physics-based object representations: Behavioral and computational evidence

The paper shows humans can perceive cloth stiffness through visual motion and presents a computational model simulating mental physics to explain this behavior.

Effect of Geometric Sharpness on Translucent Material Perception

This study investigates how geometric sharpness influences human perception of translucency in materials, finding that sharp features significantly affect perceived translucency.

Manipulating patterns of dynamic deformation elicits the impression of cloth with varying stiffness

The paper shows that manipulating dynamic deformation patterns can alter perceived cloth stiffness, identifying specific optical flow features that correlate with stiffness perception.

Interaction between static visual cues and force-feedback on the perception of mass of virtual objects

This study investigates how static visual cues and force-feedback interact to influence the perception of mass in virtual objects and shows that visual appearance affects both perception and manipulation kinematics.

Estimating mechanical properties of cloth from videos using dense motion trajectories: human psychophysics and machine learning

This paper shows that humans and machine learning models use multi-frame motion information to estimate cloth stiffness from videos.