Papers for discussion:
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Wednesday, Dec 13, 2006: Adaptation and the color statistics of natural images.
MA Webster, JD Mollon - Vision Res, 1997
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Friday, Sept 22, 2006: Blaschke, Berkes, Wiskott. What Is the Relation Between Slow Feature
Analysis and Independent Component Analysis? Neural Computation. 2006, 18:2495-2508.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006: Aapo Hyvarinen and Erkki Oja. Independent Component Analysis:
Algorithms and Applications. Neural Networks, 13(4-5):411-430, 2000.
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(mentioned) Wednesday, June 28, 2006: Li Zhao. Is sparse and distributed the coding goal of simple
cells? Biol. Cybern. 91, 408-416 (2004).
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006: Felix Wichmann, Doris Braun, Karl Gegenfurtner. Phase noise and the
classification of natural images. Vision Research 46 (2006) 1520-1529.
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- Monday, June 5, 2006: Discuss Dan's paper on Art and natural image stats - recommended
A paper by ferwerda
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Friday, April 28th, 2006:
Rajashekar, U., Bovik, A., & Cormack, L. (2006). Visual search in noise: Revealing the influence of structural cues by
gaze-contingent classification image analysis. Journal of Vision, 6, 379-386.
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Friday, April 14th (at 11:00!), 2006:
J W Pillow and E P Simoncelli. Dimensionality reduction in neural models: An information-theoretic generalization of spike triggered
average and covariance analysis. Journal of Vision, to appear Spring 2006.
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Monday, August 29, 2005:
N C Rust, O Schwartz, J A Movshon, and E P Simoncelli.
Spatiotemporal Elements of Macaque V1 Receptive Fields
Neuron, 46(6):945-956, 16 June 2005.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005:
Shams L, von der Malsburg C. The role of complex cells in object recognition. Vision Res. 2002 Oct;42(22):2547-54
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Monday, May 16, 2005:
Jonathan D. Victor. Binless strategies for estimation of information from neural data. Phys. Rev. E 66, 51903 (2002).
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Monday, April 18, 2005:
Selectivity and sparseness in the responses of striate complex cells Sidney R. Lehkya, Terrence J. Sejnowski and Robert Desimone Vision
Research Volume 45, Issue 1 , January 2005, Pages 57-73
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Ilya Nemenman, William Bialek, and Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck. Entropy and information in neural spike
trains: Progress on the sampling problem. Phys. Rev. E 69, 056111 (2004) (6 pages)
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005:
Grimes, D. and R. Rao. Bilinear sparse coding for invariant vision. Neural Computation, 17(1), 47-73, 2005.
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Monday, March 14, 2005:
J.H. van Hateren, L. Ruttiger, H. Sun, and B. B. Lee (2002).
Processing of Natural Temporal Stimuli by Macaque Retinal Ganglion Cells.
J. Neurosci., Nov 2002; 22: 9945-9960. [PDF]
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J.H. van Hateren and H.P. Snippe (2001). Information theoretical evaluation of parametric models of the
gain control in blowfly photoreceptor cells.
Vision Research 41:1851-1865 (2001) [PDF]
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Monday, Feb 28 and March 7, 2005: Lennie, P. (1998). Single units and visual cortical organization. Perception, 27, 889-935
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Monday, Feb 21, 2005: Background portion of Damon's Defense:
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Monday, Feb 7, 2005: Yao, H., Li, C.Y. (2002) Clustered organization of neurons with similar
extra-receptive field properties in the primary visual cortex. Neuron 35,
547-553 [PDF]
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Wednesday, Feb 2, 2005: Yao, H., Shen, Y., Dan, Y. (2004) Intracortical mechanism of
stimulus-timing-dependent plasticity in visual cortical orientation tuning.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 5081-5086 [PDF]
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WINTER BREAK
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Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004: Wiskott, Laurenz. How Does Our Visual System Achieve Shift and Size Invariance. To appear in J. L. van
Hammen and T. J. Sejnowski (Eds), Problems in Systems Neuroscience, Oxford University Press(2004)
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L. M. Martinez and J.-M. Alonso. Complex Receptive Fields in Primary Visual Cortex. Neuroscientist, October 1, 2003; 9(5): 317 - 331.
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Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004: Discussion of Fukushima's Neocognitron.
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Wednesday, Dec 1, 2004:
- Basis Pursuit:
- Basis pursuit short intro by Chen & Donoho (4 pgs) [PDF]
- Try Chapter 3 of Chen's thesis [PDF]
- A more thorough paper by Chen, Donoho, and Saunders on BP [PDF]
- Template matching by insects:
- Shiming Tang, Reinhard Wolf, Shuping Xu, Martin Heisenberg. Visual Pattern Recognition in Drosophila Is Invariant for Retinal Position. Science, Vol 305, Issue 5686, 1020-1022 (2004).[PDF]
- Abstract of the paper it is contrasted with. [HTML]
- A 2000 paper by Efler & Ronacher against template matching for honeybees[PDF]
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Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004: Edmond Rolls. Representation in the Brain. Synthese 129: 153171, 2001.
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Peter Foldiak. Sparse coding in the primate cortex. "To appear in The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second edition,
(M.A. Arbib, Ed.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002."
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Nov 17, 2004: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Visit
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Nov 3, Nov 10, 2004: On Intelligence. By Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee.
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Oct 27, 2004: T. Deselaers, D. Keysers, and H. Ney.
Features for Image Retrieval: A Quantitative Comparison. In DAGM 2004, Pattern Recognition, 26th DAGM Symposium, Tubingen, Germany, Volume LNCS 3175 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 228 - 336, August/September 2004
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Shivani Agarwal and Dan Roth.
Learning a sparse representation for object detection.
In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002. Published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2353, pages 113-130, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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Oct 20, 2004: Petrov Y. and L. Zhaoping (2003) Local correlations, information redundancy, and the sufficient pixel depth in natural images. Journal of Optical Society of America A. Vol. 20. No. 1, p56-66
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Oct 13, 2004: Fiser, J., Chiu, C. and Weliky, M. Small modulation
of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision.
Nature 431, 573-578.
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supplement
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Oct 6, 2004: Wiskott, L. and Berkes, P. (2003) Is Slowness a
Learning Principle of the Visual Cortex? Zoology, 106(4):373-382.
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Sep 6, 2004: On Advances in Statistical Modeling of Natural Images (Srivastava, Lee, Simoncelli, and Zhu) Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 18(1), 17-33, 2003 [PDF]
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Aug 17, 2004: Karklin, Y. and Lewicki, M.S. (2003) "Learning higher-order structures in natural images." Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 14: 483-499. [PDF]