VS298: Natural Scene Statistics
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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.
Instructor: Bruno Olshausen
Enrollment information:
VS 298 (section 4), 2 units
CCN: 66489
Meeting time and place:
Monday 6-8, Evans 560
Schedule:
Date | Topic/Reading | Presenter |
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Feb. 3 | Redundancy reduction, whitening, and power spectrum of natural images | Anthony DiFranco |
Feb. 10 | Whitening in time and color; Robust coding
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Feb. 17 | ** Holiday ** | |
Feb. 24 | ICA and sparse coding
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March 3 | Statistics of natural sound and auditory coding
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March 10 | Higher-order group structure
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March 17 | Energy-based models
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March 24 | Learning invariances through 'slow feature analysis'
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March 31 | ** Spring recess ** | |
April 7 | Manifold and Lie group models |
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April 14 | Hierarchical models
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April 21 | Deep network models |
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April 28 | ||
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May 12 |