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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)
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- VISUAL ILLUSIONS
- 02/17-03/24 Student presentations on illusions
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- 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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