CS-599: Computational Architectures in Biological Vision

Review-Article Projects

For the review-article projects, you will survey the neuroscience and computer vision literature on a particular topic, assess the state of the art in both fields, and make a few suggestions on how one field could benefit from the other.

Your main source of information for this work will be:

You will make a selection of articles that you will briefly describe in your review paper. You will not paraphrase teh authors of the articles, but rather explain in a few words what the authors did and what part of their work is interesting and relevant to your point.

It will be important to try to organize your paper in a logical manner, so that you make a few clear points rather then dumping a lot of unrelated information. Clearly, your paper will present a very biased view on current research; you will not describe every existing project in detail; rather, you will select a few projects which are well known (based on the number of times they are cited in other papers) and representative of an approach.

Your goal is to provide a busy reader with a quick assessment of the current situation in a given research area. Several sample review articles will be distributed in class, so that you can familiarize yourself with the format.

Subject topics include:

Programming Projects

These projects consist of implementing a computer vision algorithm that is relevant to biology. Implementation can be in the language of your choice and on the platform of your choice. However, an important part of the evaluation was to demonstrate that your algorithm can be applied to real images (not only simple stimuli).

Possible topics include: