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Winter Quarter 2004 - 2
Introduction to Computer Vision
Tuesday / Thursday 8am-10am

Fall Quarter 2004 - 1
Biologically Inspired Intelligent Systems

COURSE NEWS:

The take home Exam #1 is available HERE. The exam is due at the start of class on October 19th. The exam is closed book.

I will be at the Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition workshop the week of October 11th. There is no class October 12  (complete Exam #1
during that time).

Guest speaker, Thursday, October 14: Dr. Roxanne Canosa. Please read Dr. Canosa's paper before her lecture. It can be found HERE

GROUP PRESENTATION INFORMATION

GROUP PRESENTATIONS	PRESENTATION DATE	TOPIC and REFERENCES
Group 1	Thursday, October 21, 2004	Motion Detection in the Human Visual System References: 1. "Motion processing in human visual cortex,"  Randolph Blake, Robert Sekuler 2. "Fundamental mechanisms of visual motion detection: models, cells and functions," C. Clifford, M. Ibbotson 3. "A visual nervous network for moving object recognition," Noriaki Sato, M. Hagiwara
Group 2	Thursday, October 28, 2004	Object Recognition and Visual Categorization  in Primates References: 1. "The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognition," E. Miller, D. Freedman, J. Wallis 2. "A comparison of primate prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices during visual categorization," D. Freedman, M. Riesenhuber, T. Poggio, E. Miller 3. "Cortical analysis of visual context," Moshe. Bar, E. Aminoff
Group 3	Thursday, November 4, 2004	Somatic Processing in the Sensory Cortex 1. "Whisker Vibration Information Carried by Rat Barrel Cortex Neurons," Arabzadeh E., Panzeri S., and Diamond M.E. 2. "Investigations into the organization of information in sensory cortex,"  Diamond M.E., Petersen R.S., Harris J.A., and Panzeri S. 3. "The role of individual spikes and spike patterns in population coding of stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex,"  Petersen R.S., Panzeri S., Diamond M.E. Good source: Tactile Perception and Learning Lab, http://www.sissa.it/cns/tactile/index.php
Group 4	Thursday, November 11, 2004	Humanoid Robotics   (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/index.html) "Teaching an old robot new tricks, Learning novel tasks via interaction with people and things,"  Matthew Marjanovic http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/lbr/hrg/2003/AITR-2003-013.pdf

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTATIONS:
1. As a minimum, read the papers listed as references. If necessary read the paper's references to gain a good understanding of the material in the papers. Use additional papers where appropriate. Use the Internet and RIT's library's databases as a sourse for papers.
2. Prepare a 60 - 90 minute presentation - EACH member of the group must present a portion of the presentation (with 3 members, each member should present approximately 25 minutes of material.)
3. Lead a class discussion after the presentation is completed.
4. Email powerpoint presentation to me by the end of class or before. I will post the presentations on the course webpage. The material will be used for the last exam.
5. BE SURE TO INCLUDE REFERENCES FOR ALL MATERIAL (IMAGES, DRAWINGS, PLOTS, ETC.) COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES (TEXTS, PUBLICATIONS, WEBSITES, ETC.) .

Lecture 1 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 2 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 3 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 4 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 5 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 6 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 7 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 8 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 9 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 10 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 11 EXAM #1 Lecture 12 Guest Speaker Lecture 13 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 14 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 15 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 16 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 17 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 18 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Lecture 19 PowerPoint PDF Lecture 20 PowerPoint PDF	Fish Visual System Presentations GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4 First Homework Assignment Second Homework Assignment- See slide 45 of Lecture #9
Textbooks of interest: Introduction to Brain and Behavior   Kolb & Whishaw Neuroscience   Purves, Augustine, ... Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience   Trappenberg A User's Guide to the Brain   Ratey