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BCS 220: Lecture Schedule

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INTRODUCTION
01/13 Introduction & organization
Reading due: none
UNDERSTANDING IMAGE FORMATION & CODING
01/18 The optic array, design of the eye | pdf
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson, Ch 1
01/20 Retinal coding | pdf
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson, Ch 2
01/25 Early cortical coding | pdf
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson, Ch 3
UNCERTAINTY AND PERCEPTUAL DECISIONS
01/27 Sensory decisions in the face of uncertainty – signal detection theory | pdf
Reading due: Goldstein (pp. 553-561)
02/01 The simplest decisions – detecting light (Hecht, Schlaer and Pirenne) | pdf
Reading due: Cornsweet
02/03 Relating neural signals to perceptual decisions – motion perception | pdf
Reading due: Newsone, et. al. (1996) "Visual motion: Linking neuronal activity to psychophysical performance," in The Cognitive Neurosciences, M. S. Gazzaniga, ed.
SEEING IN 3 DIMENSIONS
02/08 Stereopsis I | pdf
Reading due: Bruce, Green, & Georgeson (pp. 137-154)
02/10 Stereopsis II | pdf
Reading due: Marr
Midterm proposal due
02/15 Monocular cues | pdf
Reading due: Mamassian, Kersten, & Knill (1990);
Knill (1996)
02/17 Mid-term exam
GUEST LECTURES
02/22 Prof. Daphne Bavelier: Perceptual learning in video game players
02/24 Prof. Duje Tadin: Motion perception
03/01 Prof. Robbie Jacobs: Cue integration | pdf
CUE INTEGRATION
03/03 Multi-modal cue integration I – vision and audition
Reading due: Kording et al (2007)
03/15 Multi-modal cue integration II – vision and proprioception
(schedule lab times for demos)
Reading due: Hu and Knill (2010)
 
VISUAL ILLUSIONS
02/17-03/24 Student presentations on illusions
 
OBJECT RECOGNITION
03/29 The problem of categorization (in its simplest form – phoneme categorization
Reading due: Rao, et. al. visual (submitted)
03/31 Face recognition – Face space | pdf
Reading due: Leopold, et. al. (1999); O'toole, et. al. (1998)
Final paper proposal due
04/05 Face recognition – Neural mechanisms
04/07 Face recognition – the debate about neural mechanisms | pdf
Reading due: Kanwisher, et. al. (1997); Gauthier, et. al. (1999)
04/12 The invariance problem - structural models | pdf
Reading due: Biederman (1987)
04/14 The invariance problem - view-based models | pdf
Reading due: Poggio and Edelman (1990); Bulthoff and Edelman (1992)
VISUAL CONTROL OF ACTION
04/19 TBD | pdf
04/21 TBD | pdf
First draft of final paper due
04/26 TBD
04/28 TBD
05/03 TBD
Final paper due

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