Cognitive Science 275--Visual Modeling: Biological and Computation Vision

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Professors:

Marty Sereno -- sereno -AT- cogsci -- office: CSB 171, by email appt

Jochen Triesch -- triesch -AT- cogsci -- office: CSB 143, by email appt

class: Thu 12:00-2:50 PM, CSB 180

Readings:

book: H.-P. Mallot

papers: links on this site

[first week: in folders in cogsci lunchroom]

Assignments:

20 min. presentation of paper(s) from literature on one of topics below (following lecture)

bi-weekly Matlab assignments

either: (1) modeling project with 5-10 page write up, or (2) longer critical literature review

Lecture Topics: (Winter 2003 -- this page: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/275/syll.html)

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Week of 1/6 -- Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

• channels, membrane potentials, cell types, local circuits, areas
• cable equation, integrate-and-fire, Hodgkin-Huxley, compartmental models
• NMDA channels, plasticity

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Week of 1/13 -- Orientation and Edges

• LGN, reverse correlation in V1 (web link) , Gabor filters
• Hebbian and recurrent models, zero-crossings, scales, curvature, completion
• statistics of natural scenes, furhter reading: Simoncelli and Olshausen paper

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Week of 1/20 -- Neuro Motion

• retina, dLGN, accessory optic, V1
• MT-aperture, MT-non-classical, MSTd-flowfields, MSTl-pursuit

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Week of 1/27 -- Computational Motion

• gradient models (Horn and Schunk), correlation models, motion energy
• aperture problem, flow fields, structure-from-motion

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Week of 2/3 -- Stereo and other Depth Cues

• stereo geometry, Julesz, Marr-Poggio I and II
• V1 stereo reverse corr, MT and MST

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Week of 2/10 -- Shading and Color

• receptors, LGN, blobs, V4-color, V4-texture
• constancy, shape-from-shading, shadows, labeling

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Week of 2/17 -- Segmentation, Grouping, Object Recognition

• inferotemporal cortex, higher order filters, invariance
• characters, faces, objects
• segmentation, grouping, scenes

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Week of 2/24 -- Eye Movements and Active Vision

• VOR, OKN, pursuit, plasticity, saccades, neuroanatomy
• models (Robinson, Lisberger, Sparks, Optican)

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Week of 3/5 -- Attention

• isthmi/SC, V4, LIP, IT
• spatial attention, attentional blink, change blindness
• rivalry, competition

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Week of 3/12 -- Catch-up, Class Presentation of Projects

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