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

Psych 465; also CogSt 465, CS 392

NOTES:

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week 1	1/21 1/23	Preliminaries. What does it mean to see? Marr's theory.
week 2	1/28 1/30	Structural descriptions. Biederman and Hummel; Hummel; Plate
week 3	2/4 2/6	Structural descriptions. The best shot at learning parts for structural descriptions. Shams and von der Malsburg.
week 4	2/11 2/13	Structural descriptions. The best shot at computing and using structural descriptions. Zhu and Yuille. Camps. essay 1 due Friday 2/14, 4:30pm
week 5	2/18 2/20	Structural descriptions. The best shot at enforcing compositionality. Bienenstock and Geman; Potter.
week 6	2/25 2/27	Waking up from the structural dreams. Recognition and categorization of actual 3D objects. Edelman and Duvdevani-Bar. essay 2 due Friday 2/28, 4:30pm
week 7	3/4 3/6	Facing psychological reality. Recognition and categorization: psychophysics (viewpoint dependence; veridicality). Edelman and Bülthoff; Edelman and Cutzu.
week 8	3/11 3/13	Neuro 0. Parker and Newsome. Neuro I. Logothetis; Op de Beeck and Vogels; Tanaka.
spring break	.. ..	...	.
week 9	3/25 3/27	What does it really mean to see? Edelman. Chorus of Fragments Edelman and Intrator.
week 10	4/1 4/3	Using fragments. Edelman and Intrator. Neuro II: what+where neurons in PF, IT. Rainer; Vogels. essay 3 due Friday 4/4, 4:30pm
week 11	4/8 4/10	Neuro III: attention and structure in V4. Desimone; Gallant. Neuro IV: columns, feature combination in IT. Tsunoda; Tanifuji.
week 12	4/15 4/17	Global order from local fragments. Mel; Nelson; Perona. essay 4 due Friday 4/18, 4:30pm
week 13	4/22 4/24	Learning fragments. Perona; Ullman.
week 14	4/29 5/1	Learning fragments. Edelman and Intrator. essay 5 due Friday 5/2, 4:30pm

Instructor: Shimon Edelman (se37@cornell.edu)

Time: TR 11:40-12:55
Place: 307 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 Thursday, May 15, 4:30pm). The term paper contributes 35% to the final grade.