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Andrew Glennerster

Email:
a.glennerster@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 5554
Job title:
Professor of Visual Neuroscience

Responsibilities:

Chair of School Research Ethics Committee

Areas of interest

Human 3D vision, binocular stereopsis, spatial representation in moving observers, immersive virtual reality, psychophysics, computational modelling.

Teaching

Undergraduate: perception, 3D vision
Postgraduate: neuroscience.

Research centres and groups

Perception and Action

Academic qualifications

MA (Cambridge)
MB BChir (Cambridge)
DPhil (Oxford).

Websites/blogs

Professor Andrew Glennerster

Publications

Glennerster, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8674-2763 (2023) Understanding 3D vision as a policy network. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 378 (1869). ISSN: 1471-2970 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0448

Muryy, A. and Glennerster, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8674-2763 (2021) Route selection in non-Euclidean virtual environments. PLoS ONE , 16 (4). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247818
Scarfe, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-3587-6198 and Glennerster, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8674-2763 (2021) Combining cues to judge distance and direction in an immersive virtual reality environment. Journal of Vision , 21 (10). ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.4.10

Muryy, A. , Narayanaswamy, S. , Nardelli, N. , Glennerster, A. , Torr, P. (2020) Lessons from reinforcement learning for biological representations of space. Vision Research , 174 pp. 79-93. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2020.05.009

Vuong, J. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Glennerster, A. (2019) No single, stable 3D representation can explain pointing biases in a spatial updating task. Scientific Reports , 9 (1). ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48379-8
Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. (2019) The science behind virtual reality displays. Annual Review of Vision Science , 5 (1). pp. 529-547. ISSN: 1941-1413 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-091718-014942

Muryy, A. and Glennerster, A. (2018) Pointing errors in non-metric virtual environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 11034 pp. 43-57. ISSN: 0302-9743 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_4

Gootjes-Dreesbach, L. , Pickup, L. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Glennerster, A. (2017) Comparison of view-based and reconstruction-based models of human navigational strategy. Journal of Vision , 17 (9). ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/17.9.11

Glennerster, A. (2016) A moving observer in a three-dimensional world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 371 (1697). ISSN: 0962-8436 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0265

Glennerster, A. (2015) Visual stability what is the problem?. Frontiers in Psychology , 6 pp 958. ISSN: 1664-1078 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00958
Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. (2015) Using high-fidelity virtual reality to study perception in freely moving observers. Journal of Vision , 15 (9). pp. 1-11. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/15.9.3

Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. (2014) Humans use predictive kinematic models to calibrate visual cues to three-dimensional surface slant. The Journal of Neuroscience , 34 (31). pp. 10394-10401. ISSN: 1529-2401 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1000-14.2014

Glennerster, A. (2013) Representing 3D shape and location. In: Dickinson, S. and Pizlo, Z. , (eds.) Shape perception in human and computer vision. Advances in computer vision and pattern recognition Springer , London. pp. 201-212. ISBN: 9781447151944 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5195-1
Pickup, L. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Glennerster, A. (2013) Modelling human visual navigation using multi-view scene reconstruction. Biological Cybernetics , 107 (4). pp. 449-464. ISSN: 0340-1200 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00422-013-0558-2
Wexler, M. , Glennerster, A. , Cavanagh, P. , Ito, H. , Seno, T. (2013) Default perception of high-speed motion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 110 (17). pp. 7080-7085. ISSN: 1091-6490 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213997110

Svarverud, E. , Gilson, S. , Glennerster, A. (2012) A demonstration of 'broken' visual space. PLoS ONE , 7 (3). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033782

Gilson, S. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Glennerster, A. (2011) An automated calibration method for non-see-through head mounted displays. Journal of Neuroscience Methods , 199 (2). pp. 328-335. ISSN: 0165-0270 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.05.011
Pickup, L. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Gilson, S. , Glennerster, A. (2011) View-based modelling of human visual navigation errors. pp. 135-140. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IVMSPW.2011.5970368

Svarverud, E. , Gilson, S. , Glennerster, A. (2010) Cue combination for 3D location judgements. Journal of Vision , 10 (5). pp. 1-13. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/10.1.5

Gilson, . , Fitzgibbon, . , Glennerster, . , eds. (2009) An automated calibration method for non-see-through head mounted displays . In: Arabnia, . and Deligiannidis, . , (eds.) CSREA Press pp. 145-150. ISBN: 1601320973
Read, J. , Phillipson, G. , Glennerster, A. (2009) Latitude and longitude vertical disparities. Journal of Vision , 9 (13). pp. 1-37. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.13.11
Glennerster, A. , Hansard, M. , Fitzgibbon, A. (2009) View-based approaches to spatial representation in human vision. Statistical and geometrical approaches to visual motion analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 5604. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 5604 pp. 193-208. ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 9783642030604 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03061-1_10

McLeod, P. , Reed, N. , Gilson, S. , Glennerster, A. (2008) How soccer players head the ball: a test of optic acceleration cancellation theory with virtual reality. Vision Research , 48 (13). pp. 1479-1487. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.016
Gilson, S. , Fitzgibbon, A. , Glennerster, A. (2008) Spatial calibration of an optical see-through head-mounted display. Journal of Neuroscience Methods , 173 (1). pp. 140-146. ISSN: 0165-0270 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.05.015

Glennerster, A. (2007) Marr's vision: twenty-five years on. Current Biology , 17 (11). pp. R397-R399. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.035

Bradshaw, . and Glennerster, . (2006) Stereoscopic acuity and observation distance. Spatial Vision , 19 (1). pp. 21-36. ISSN: 0169-1015 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156856806775009250
Gilson, . , Fitzgibbon, . , Glennerster, . (2006) Quantitative analysis of accuracy of an inertial/acoustic 6DOF tracking system in motion. Journal of Neuroscience Methods , 154 (1-2). pp. 175-182. ISSN: 0165-0270 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2005.12.013
Glennerster, . , Tcheang, . , Gilson, . , Fitzgibbon, . , Parker, . (2006) Humans ignore motion and stereo cues in favor of a fictional stable world. Current Biology , 16 (4). pp. 428-432. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.019
Petrov, . and Glennerster, . (2006) Disparity with respect to a local reference plane as a dominant cue for stereoscopic depth relief. Vision Research , 46 (26). pp. 4321-4332. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2006.07.011
Rauschecker, A. , Solomon, S. , Glennerster, A. (2006) Stereo and motion parallax cues in human 3D vision: can they vanish without a trace?. Journal of Vision , 6 (12). pp. 1471-1485. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/6.12.12

Tcheang, . , Gilson, . , Glennerster, . (2005) Systematic distortions of perceptual stability investigated using immersive virtual reality. Vision Research , 45 (16). pp. 2177-2189. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2005.02.006