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Scene Understanding Symposium

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2006

Topics

  • Opening Remarks
  • From Zero to Gist in 200 msec: The Time Course of Scene Recognition
  • Feedforward Theories of Visual Cortex Predict Human Performance in Rapid Image Categorization
  • Latency, Duration and Codes for Objects in Inferior Temporal Cortex
  • From Feedforward Vision to Natural Vision: The Impact of Free Viewing, Task, and Clutter on Monkey Inferior Temporal Object Representations
  • Invariant Visual Representations of Natural Images by Single Neurons in the Human Brain
  • Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes and the Role of Attention
  • Natural Scene Categorization: From Humans to Computers
  • Contextual Associations in the Brain
  • Using the Forest to See the Trees: A Computational Model Relating Features, Objects and Scenes
  • Detecting and Remembering Pictures With and Without Visual Noise
  • Scene Perception after Those First Few Hundred Milliseconds
  • The Artist as Neuroscientist
  • Brain and Cognitive Sciences Colloquium - Scene Processing with a Wave of Spikes: Reverse Engineering the Visual System

Readings

  • The following table lists the papers associated with each presentation at the 2006 Scene Understanding Symposium. All readings are courtesy of the person named and used with permission.
    Listed reading
  • TIME: 9:00-9:20 · TOPICS: From Zero to Gist in 200 msec: The Time Course of Scene Recognition · READINGS: Oliva, Aude, and Antonio Torralba. “Building the Gist of a Scene: The Role of Global Image Features in Recognition.” ( PDF - 1.0 MB ) ↗
    Reading assignment
  • TIME: 9:20-9:45 · TOPICS: Feedforward Theories of Visual Cortex Predict Human Performance in Rapid Image Categorization · READINGS: Serre, Thomas, Minjoon Kouh, Charles Cadieu, Ulf Knoblich, Gabriel Kreiman, and Tomaso Poggio. “A Theory of Object Recognition: Computations and Circuits in the Feedforward Path of the Ventral Stream in Primate Visual Cortex.” ( PDF - 6.1 MB ) ↗
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  • TIME: 9:45-10:05 · TOPICS: Latency, Duration and Codes for Objects in Inferior Temporal Cortex · READINGS: Hung, Chou P., Gabriel Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio, and James J. DiCarlo. “Fast Readout of Object Identity from Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex.” Science 310 (2005): 863-866.
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  • Kreiman, Gabriel, Chou P. Hung, Alexander Karskov, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Tomaso Poggio, and James J. DiCarlo. “Object Selectivity of Local Field Potentials and Spikes in the Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex.” Neuron 49 (2006): 433-445.
    Listed reading
  • TIME: 10:25-10:50 · TOPICS: From Feedforward Vision to Natural Vision: The Impact of Free Viewing, Task, and Clutter on Monkey Inferior Temporal Object Representations · READINGS: DiCarlo, James J., and John H. R. Maunsell. “Form Representation in Monkey Inferotemporal Cortex Is Virtually Unaltered by Free Viewing.” Nature Neuroscience 3 (2000): 814-821.
    Reading assignment
  • Zoccolan, Davide, David D. Cox, and James J. DiCarlo. “Multiple Object Response Normalization in Monkey Inferotemporal Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2005): 8150-8164.
    Listed reading
  • Hung, Chou P., Gabriel Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio, and James J. DiCarlo. “Fast Readout of Object Identity from Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex.” Science 310 (2005): 863-866.
    Listed reading
  • TIME: 10:50-11:10 · TOPICS: Invariant Visual Representations of Natural Images by Single Neurons in the Human Brain · READINGS: Quiroga, R. Quian, L. Reddy, G. Kreiman, C. Koch, and I. Fried. “Invariant Visual Representation by Single Neurons in the Human Brain.” Nature 435 (2005): 1102-1107.
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  • TIME: 11:10-11:40 · TOPICS: Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes and the Role of Attention · READINGS: Evans, Karla K., and Anne Treisman. “Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes: Is It Really Attention Free?” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31 (2005): 1476-1492.
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  • TIME: 1:25-1:50 · TOPICS: Contextual Associations in the Brain · READINGS: Bar, Moshe. “Visual Objects in Context.” Nature Reviews 5 (2004): 617-629.
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  • TIME: 1:50-2:15 · TOPICS: Using the Forest to See the Trees: A Computational Model Relating Features, Objects and Scenes · READINGS: Torralba, Antonio. “Contextual Priming for Object Detection.” International Journal of Computer Vision 53 (2003): 169-191.
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  • TIME: 2:45-3:05 · TOPICS: Scene Perception after Those First Few Hundred Milliseconds · READINGS: Oliva, Aude, Jeremy M. Wolfe, and Helga C. Arsenio. “Panoramic Search: The Interaction of Memory and Vision in Search Through a Familiar Scene.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 30 (2004): 1132-1146.
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