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This seminar will survey the wide variety of eye designs and visual systems found in the animal kingdom. Students will lead discussion each week based on readings from Land and Nilsson’s book, ''Animal Eyes'', in addition to other articles from the literature.
This seminar will examine what is known about the statistical structure of natural visual and auditory scenes, and theories of how sensory coding strategies have been adapted to this structure. Topics include:
- Theories of efficient and robust coding
- ICA and sparse coding
- Energy-based models: 'Product of experts' and 'Fields of experts'
- Learning invariant representations through ‘slow feature analysis’
- Manifold and Lie group models
- Hierarchical models and ‘deep networks’


'''Instructor''': [mailto:baolshausen@berkeley.edu Bruno Olshausen]
'''Instructor''': [mailto:baolshausen@berkeley.edu Bruno Olshausen]
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VS 298 (section 4), 2 units<br />
VS 298 (section 4), 2 units<br />
CCN: 66495
CCN: 66489


'''Meeting time and place''':
'''Meeting time and place''':


Thursdays 6-8, Evans 560
Monday 6-8, Evans 560


'''Reading''':
'''Reading''':

Revision as of 22:58, 28 January 2014

This seminar will examine what is known about the statistical structure of natural visual and auditory scenes, and theories of how sensory coding strategies have been adapted to this structure. Topics include:

- Theories of efficient and robust coding
- ICA and sparse coding
- Energy-based models: 'Product of experts' and 'Fields of experts'
- Learning invariant representations through ‘slow feature analysis’
- Manifold and Lie group models
- Hierarchical models and ‘deep networks’

Instructor: Bruno Olshausen

Enrollment information:

VS 298 (section 4), 2 units
CCN: 66489

Meeting time and place:

Monday 6-8, Evans 560

Reading:

  • Animal Eyes by Michael Land and Dan Nilsson (Amazon)
  • Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved by Ivan Schwab (Amazon)
  • In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of Evolution by Andrew Parker (Amazon)

Schedule:

Date Topic/Reading Presenter
Jan. 26 Chapters 1,2: The origin of vision, Light and vision

+ Nilsson paper

Joel
Feb. 2 Chapter 3: What makes a good eye?

+ Jumping spider paper

Ann
Feb. 8 (Wed.) Chapter 4: Aquatic eyes: the evolution of the lens

+ Fernald paper, Jellyfish papers

Drew
Feb. 16 Chapter 5: Lens eyes on land

(hilarious video vestibular-ocular reflex in chickens)

Lucas
Feb. 23 Chapter 6: Mirrors in animals

+ Wagner et al. article + Macropinna microstoma video

Steve, Asako
Mar. 1 Chapter 7: Apposition compound eyes Robert
Mar. 8

Note: 4:00

How Eyes Evolved - special topics

(public lecture at 12:00 in the Redwood Center)

Ivan Schwab
Mar. 15 'Chick eyes'

+ Wallman & Winawer article

Chris Wildsoet
Mar. 22 A theory of slit pupils Marty Banks
Mar. 29 [Spring recess]
Apr. 5 Binocular vision in birds

+ Martin article + Snyder & Miller article

Bill
Apr. 12 Chapter 8: Superposition eyes

+ Yack article

Dillon
Apr. 19 Chapter 9: Movements of the eyes

+ Gilchrist et al. article + Schilstra & van Hateren article

Fernando
Apr. 26 Evolution of visual systems

Shimizu & Bowers article + Hanlon article + Kaas article

Dillon, Lucas
May 3 Dog vision

Miller & Murphy article + Guo et al. article

Benji