Adv. Topics in Computation, Vision, & Intelligence

4.0 credits

This course is an advanced seminar course exploring how intelligence emerges through the lens of computation. While we will take a broad view of intelligence, we will be particularly concerned with visual intelligence, discussing topics on eyes, retina, and visual processing in the brain. We will approach intelligence from both the evolutionary angle and the learning angle. The overarching goals of the course is to both understand how natural intelligence emerges and how we can take inspiration from it to design artificial intelligence. The format will be a combination of instructor-led lectures, student-led paper critiquing and presentations, as well as semester-long projects.