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)
- 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
- 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
- Week of 1/20 -- Neuro Motion
- retina, dLGN, accessory optic, V1
- MT-aperture, MT-non-classical, MSTd-flowfields, MSTl-pursuit
- Week of 1/27 -- Computational Motion
- gradient models (Horn and Schunk), correlation models, motion energy
- aperture problem, flow fields, structure-from-motion
- Week of 2/3 -- Stereo and other Depth Cues
- stereo geometry, Julesz, Marr-Poggio I and II
- V1 stereo reverse corr, MT and MST
- Week of 2/10 -- Shading and Color
- receptors, LGN, blobs, V4-color, V4-texture
- constancy, shape-from-shading, shadows, labeling
- Week of 2/17 -- Segmentation, Grouping, Object Recognition
- inferotemporal cortex, higher order filters, invariance
- characters, faces, objects
- segmentation, grouping, scenes
- Week of 2/24 -- Eye Movements and Active Vision
- VOR, OKN, pursuit, plasticity, saccades, neuroanatomy
- models (Robinson, Lisberger, Sparks, Optican)
- Week of 3/5 -- Attention
- isthmi/SC, V4, LIP, IT
- spatial attention, attentional blink, change blindness
- rivalry, competition
- Week of 3/12 -- Catch-up, Class Presentation of Projects