Reading Schedule

Week 1:
     September 25
     First day of classes

     September 27
     Eye, Brain and Vision (Chapters 1-3)
     By David H. Hubel

Week 2:
     October 2
     Eye, Brain and Vision (Chapters 4-5)
     By David H. Hubel

     October 4
     Learning Invariant Features Using Inertial Priors
     By Thomas Dean

Week 3:
     October 9
     Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex
     By Riesenhuber, M. and Poggio, T.

     Primary: Jonathan Laserson
     Secondary: Honglak Lee

     October 11
     Hierarchical Bayesian Inference in the visual cortex
     By Tai Sing Lee and David Mumford

     Primary: Ian Post
     Secondary: Roger Grosse

Week 4:
     October 16 
     Bayesian Surprise Attracts Human Attention
     By L. Itti and P. Baldi
     http://ilab.usc.edu/publications/Itti_Baldi06nips.html (also linked from References page)
     Bayesian Theory of Surprise Home Page: http://ilab.usc.edu/surprise/ (more links on Supplementary Materials page)

     Primary: Laurent Itti (video of his Talk at Google, March 2005)
     Secondary: everyone

     October 18
     The 'Independent Components' of Natural Scenes are Edge Filters.
     Anthony J. Bell and Terrence J. Sejnowski

     Primary: primer on information theory and ICA
     Secondary: everyone

     Supplementary reading:
     - Learning the higher order structure of a natural sound. A.J. Bell
     and T.J. Sejnowski. URL = citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bell96learning.html 
     - ICA (blind source separation). URL = http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/ica/icademo/

Week 5:
     October 23 (meet in Bldg. 420, Room 371)
     How Does Our Visual System Achieve Shift and Size Invariance?
     Laurenz Wiskott

     Primary: 
     Secondary: Brian Percival

     October 25
     A neurobiological model of visual attention and invariant pattern
     recognition based on dynamic routing of information
     By Olshausen B., Anderson C., Van Essen D.

     Primary: Bob Schafer
     Secondary: Alan Jennings

Week 6  October 30
          Computation of pattern invariance in brain-like structures
          By S. Ullman and S. Soloviev
          Primary: Austin Shoemaker
        November 1
          Slow Feature Analysis: Unsupervised Learning of Invariances
          By Laurenz Wiskott and Terrence Sejnowski
          Primary: Shridhar Devarajan            Secondary: Adnan Majid

Week 7  November 6
          Invariance and selectivity in the ventral visual pathway
          By Stuart Geman
          Primary: Adnan Majid                   Secondary: Boyko Kakarodov
        November 8
          No class.  Proposals are due at 5PM.

Week 8  November 13
          Hierarchical temporal memory: concepts, theory and terminology
          By Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George
          Primary: Brian Percival                Secondary: Ian Post
        November 15
          Object recognition with features inspired by visual cortex.
          By Serre, Wolf and Poggio (CVPR, August, 2005, also PAMI in press)
          http://web.mit.edu/serre/www/Publications.htm
          Primary: Boyko Kakarodov               Secondary: TBD

Week 9  November 20-25
          No class. Thanksgiving break.

Week 10 November 27
          Topic: Representation in V1
            How close are we to understanding V1?
            By Olshausen and Field (Neural Computation, 17:1665-1699, 2005)
            http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/papers/V1-article.pdf
            Primary: Roger Grosse                Secondary: TBD
            Natural stimulus statistics alter the receptive field structure of V1 neurons
            By David, Vinje and Gallant (Neuroscience, 24(31):6991-7006, August, 2004)
            http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/24/31/6991.pdf
            Primary: Ashutosh Saxena             Secondary: TBD
            The representation of perceived angular size in human visual cortex
            By Murray, Boyaci and Kersten (Nature Neuroscience, 9(3):429-434, 2006)
            http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v9/n3/abs/nn1641.html
            Primary: Alan Jennings               Secondary: TBD
        November 29
          Topic: Low-frequency signalling
            High Gamma Power is Phase-Locked to Theta Oscillations in Human Cortex
            By Conolty et al. (Science, 315:1626-1628, September 2006)
            http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5793/1626
            Primary: Michael Linderman           Secondary: Sridhar Devarajan
            Timecourse of neural signatures of object recognition
            By Johnson and Olshausen (Journal of Vision, 3: 499-512, 2003)
            http://www.journalofvision.org/3/7/4/
            Primary: Bob Schafer                 Secondary: TBD
          OR
          Topic: Rate coding is dead!
            Stimulus-specific neuronal oscillations in orientation columns of cat
            visual cortex. By Gray and Singer (Proceedings of NAS, 86:1698-1702, 1989)
            http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/5/1698
            Primary: TBD                         Secondary: TBD

Week 11 December 4-9
         No class. NIPS 2006, Vancouver, BC.

Week 12 December 15
         Projects are due at 5PM.