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BCS 220: Lecture Schedule

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INTRODUCTION
01/15 Introduction & organization
UNDERSTANDING IMAGE FORMATION & CODING
01/20 The optic array
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson (3-24) - class handout
01/22 Retinal coding & cortical pathways
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson (25-62) - class handout
ORGANIZATION THE PERCEPTUAL SCENE
01/27 Perceptual organization (Gestalt laws)
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson (106-119) - class handout
01/29 Figure completion (psychophysics)
Reading due: Field et al. 1993 - class handout
02/03 Figure completion (computational models
Reading due: Geisler et al. 2001 - web page
02/05 Perceptual organization (neural mechanisms)
Reading due: Bakin et al. 2000 - web page
SEEING IN 3 DIMENSIONS
02/10 Stereopsis
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson (137-147, 154-159);
Nakayama & Shimojo 1992 - class handout & web page
02/12 Monocular cues
Reading due: Mamassian, Kersten, & Knill;
Adams, Ernst, & Mamassian - web page
GUEST LECTURES
02/17 Prof. Daphne Bavelier: Perceptual learning in video game players
02/19 Prof. Duje Tadin: Motion perception
VISUAL ILLUSIONS
02/24-03/03 Student presentations on illusions
UNCERTAINTY & PERCEPTUAL DECISIONS
03/05 Sensory decisions in the face of uncertainty - signal detection theory
Reading due: Goldstein (553-561) - class handout
03/17 The simplest decisions- detecting light (Hecht, Schlaer, & Pirenne)
Reading due: Cornsweet - class handout
03/19 Relating neural signals to perceptual decisions - motion perception
Reading due: Newsone et al. 1996 - class handout
03/24 A detour to cognition - sub-optimal decision making in humans
Reading due: Tversky & Kahneman - class handout
03/26 Optimal decison making in the sensori-motor system
Reading due: Trommershauser, Landy, & Maloney 2003 - web page
CUE INTEGRATION
03/31 Integrating depth cues - accounting for uncertainty
Reading due: Knill & Saunders 2003 - web page
04/02 Multi-sensory cue integration - sight & sound
Reading due: Kording et al. 2007 - web page
04/07 Learning in cue integration
Reading due: Knill 2008 - web page
OBJECT RECOGNITION
04/09 The invariance problem - structural models
Reading due: Biederman 1987 - web page
04/14 The invariance problem - view based models
Reading due: Poggio & Edelman 1990;
Bulthoff & Edelman 1992 - web page
04/16 Neural mechanisms for object recognition - single cells
Reading due: TBD
04/21 Neural mechanisms for object recognition - population codes
Reading due: TBD
04/23 Face recogntion - basics
Reading due: Leopold et al. 1999;
O'toole et al. 1998 - web page
04/28 Face recognition - the debate about neural mechanisms
Reading due: Kanwisher et al. 1997
Gauthier et al. 1999 - web page

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