Schedule for CNS/Bi/EE 186

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1.08 Koch An Introduction To Early Vision : class overview, early vision slides
What is the vision problem trying to solve, Marr's level of analysis; the early visual system, the retina, retinal neurons, visual cortex and the architecture of cortex
recommended reading
1.10 Koch Primary Visual Cortex and Beyond : early vision slides
Beyond primary visual cortex; dorsal and ventral streams
recommended reading
1.15 Perona Feature Detection
Points, edges, textures.
Example code: edges_1D.m, hyperacuity.m
1.17 Shimojo Introduction to Visual Psychophysics (lecture note)
How to measure the performance of our visual system. Matlab vernier demo.
1.17 (Homework #1 due)
1.22 Perona Orientation and Spatial Frequency
Multiresolution and multiorientation visual analysis.
Code to generate a grating, and to convolve an image with different filters
1.24 Shimojo Motion I: Psychophysics (notes for first part of lecture, and second part)
Short and long-range motion, biological motion, adaptation, optical flow.
1.29 Koch Motion II: Physiology and Psychophysics (notes)
Physiology and psychophysics of insect and human vision (first, second-order motion); area MT; fMRI; Newsome motion experiments in area MT. Videos used in the lecture:
  • short range motion
  • ambiguous long-range motion
  • first oder motion: sinusoidal bar grating
  • second order motion: contrast motion
  • G. Mather's second-order motion stimulus
    • 1.29 (Homework #2 due)
    1.30 (1st Project Presentations: Time: 6:15 - 8:15 pm, Room: Broad 100)
    1.31 Perona Object Recognition
    Representation, detection, and learning.
    2.05 Andersen Eye Movements
    Type of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, VOR, OKN; separate neural systems for their generation; role of posterior parietal cortex; frontal eye fields and cortical motion areas in the generation of saccades.
    2.05 (Homework #3 due)
    2.07 Perona Stereo I
    Computational foundations.
    2.12 Shimojo Stereo II (lecture notes)
    Physiology and psychophysics.
    2.14 Perona Bayesian Vision and Generic Viewpoint
    2.19 Shimojo Color I (lecture notes)
    Psychophysicis of lightness and color perception.
    2.21
    cancelled    		 Koch Color II, see: G. Jacobs, et al., Science, 2007
    The material of this lecture was partially covered on 2.28
    Computational foundations and physiology.
    2.21 (2nd Project Presentations: Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Room: Broad 100)
    2.26 Shimojo Visual Attention I (lecture notes)
    Psychophysics.
    2.26 (Homework #4 due)
    2.28 Koch Visual Attention II, see: L. Itti, C. Koch, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2001
    Computational models.
    3.04 Shimojo Faces, Gaze and Higher Order Perception (lecture notes)
    3.06 Perona & Shimojo Vision and Art
    (reading material -- to be published in Spatial Vision)
    3.11 Koch Visual Consciousness
    reading material
    3.18 (Projects Due)
    3.26 Grades Due
     

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