Stanford University

PSY250/CS431: High-Level Vision

Behaviors, Neurons and Computational Models

Spring 2013-2014

 

Date

Topic

Readings

Presenters

4/1

 

Introduction: Vision: are models of object recognition catching up with the brain?

 

4/3

Functional organization of high-level visual cortex and its relation to perception

 

4/8

 

The importance of cortical connections

 

Jesse Gomez
4/10

No class. CBIS symposium: cbis.stanford.edu

 

4/15

 

Information processing in the primate visual system

 

Lane McIntosh
4/17

Neocognitron: A hierarchical neural network

 

Peter Tseng

4/22

 

A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization

 

John Doherty
4/24

Image interpretation by a single bottom-up top-down cycle categorization

 

Andrew Giel & Qingping He

4/29

 

How Does the Brain Solve Visual Object Recognition?

 

Colleen Rhoades
5/1

Invariance and selectivity in the ventral visual pathway

 

Niru Maheswaranathan

5/6

 

Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex

 

Ian Ballard
5/8

Learning AND-OR Templates for Object Recognition and Detection

 

Ben Poole

5/13

 

Basic objects in natural categories

 

Kim Kyunghee & Marius Catalin Iordan
5/15

Matching Categorical Object Representations in Inferior Temporal Cortex of Man and Monkey

 

Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine & Lauren Edelson

5/20

 

Hedging Your Bets: Optimizing Accuracy- Specificity Trade-offs in Large Scale Visual Recognition

 

Kevin Nam Truong
5/22

Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Feature Hierarchies with Applications to Object Recognition

 

Andre Esteva

5/27

 

ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Netral Networks

 

Rohan Chopra & Isaac Kauvar
5/29

View from the Top: Hierarchies and Reverse Hierarchies in the Visual System

 

Robin Woodby

6/3

 

No class: dead week

 

6/5

 

Class Project Due (On Midnight)