Topics in high-level vision: Representation of object and scene structure

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week 1	1/30 2/1	Preliminaries. What does it mean to see?
week 2	2/6 2/8	Productivity (Sharon Duvdevani-Bar and Shimon Edelman; Tommy Poggio and Max Riesenhuber).
week 3	2/13 2/15	Systematicity (John Hummel). material courtesy of Pepper Williams and John Hummel
week 4	2/20 2/22	Learning parts (Ladan Shams and Christoph von der Malsburg). slides courtesy of Ladan Shams; slide #1 misoriented, courtesy of Bill Gates essay due Friday 2/23, 4:30pm
week 5	2/27 3/1	Compositionality (Elie Bienenstock and Stuart Geman; Tony Plate). material and some slides courtesy of Elie Bienenstock, Daniel Potter
week 6	3/6 3/8	Local to global constraints (Bartlett Mel). material courtesy of Bartlett Mel essay due Friday 3/9, 4:30pm
week 7	3/13 3/15	Intermediate-complexity features (Image Fragments; Shimon Ullman; material courtesy of Shimon Ullman Cubist recognition; Randal Nelson and Andrea Selinger).
spring break	.. ..	...	.	.
week 8	3/27 3/29	Intermediate-complexity features (cont.) (FORMS; Song Chun Zhu and Alan Yuille; Appearance-based parts and relations; Octavia Camps et al.).
week 9	4/3 4/5	Local photometry, global geometry Learning reusable features (Pietro Perona). essay due Friday 4/6, 4:30pm
week 10	4/10 4/12	A glimpse into the psychology of object recognition (Shimon Edelman and Heinrich Bülthoff); Sense and the single neuron (Andrew Parker and Bill Newsome).
week 11	4/17 4/19	View- and object-tuned cells in monkey IT (Nikos Logothetis); Minimal features, columns in monkey IT (Keiji Tanaka). essay due Friday 4/20, 4:30pm
week 12	4/24 4/26	Attention and structure in monkey, human V4 (Robert Desimone; Jack Gallant); What+where neurons in monkey IT, PF (Greg Rainer; Rufin Vogels).
week 13	5/1 5/3	Optical imaging of feature combination (Kazushige Tsunoda, Manabu Tanifuji); material courtesy of Manabu Tanifuji Chorus of Fragments (Shimon Edelman and Nathan Intrator). essay due Friday 5/4, 4:30pm

Instructor: Shimon Edelman (se37@cornell.edu)

Time: TR 11:40-12:55
Place: on Tuesdays 205 Uris Hall; on Thursdays 301 Uris Hall

Requirements for credit:

1. Bi-weekly short essays (in the style of "Perspectives", a regular feature in the Science magazine). The essay can cover one or more of the papers assigned in the preceding two-week period. The five essays contribute 5+15+15+15+15=65% to the final grade (the first one is weighted less, to allow for the learning curve).
2. A term paper (3-5 thousand words, due on Monday, May 14, 4:30pm). The term paper contributes 35% to the final grade.