CS664 - Neural Basis of Visually-Guided Behavior

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Introduction: The Mirror System in Monkey and Human; From the Mirror System for Grasping to Protospeech (Arbib)

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From Protospeech to Language (Arbib)

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Vision, Schemas and Minimal Subscenes (Itti)

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An Overview of the Course Projects (Arbib, Itti and Billard)

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Visual Attention: Bottom-up processes and the saliency map (Itti)

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The MNS Model of the Mirror System for Action Recognition in Grasping (Oztop)

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Visual Attention: Top-down Modulation (Itti)

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Project discussion; Object Recognition and Attention(Itti)

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Visual Attention: From Motion to Action (Itti)

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Scene Understanding (Itti)

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Brain imaging (PET, fMRI, etc.): A case study 1 (Arbib)

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Brain imaging (PET, fMRI, etc.): A case study 2 (Arbib)

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Brain imaging (PET, fMRI, etc.): A database (Arbib)

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Cognitive Grammar 1 (Arbib)

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Cognitive Grammar 2 (Arbib)

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Cognitive Grammar 3 (Arbib)

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Sign language as a bridge from action to speech (Arbib)

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Human activity analysis 1: Computer vision for understanding complex dynamic scenes (Itti)

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Spring Recess

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Spring Recess

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Human activity analysis 2: From Computer Vision to Brain Models (Itti)

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Integrating attention and action recognition: the minimal subscene 1 (Itti)

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Integrating attention and action recognition: the minimal subscene 2 (Itti)

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Sentence frames for scene descriptions and questions 1 (Itti)

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Sentence frames for scene descriptions and questions 2 (Arbib)

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TBA

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The Dynamics of Language Acquisition in the Child 1 (Arbib)

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The Dynamics of Language Acquisition in the Child 2 (Arbib)

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Student reports on group projects 1

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Student reports on group projects 2

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Student reports on group projects 3

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Conceptual Overview of our Progress (Arbib and Itti)