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BCS 220: Lecture Schedule
Only students who are enrolled in the course may access the readings online. You must be logged
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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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