Computer Vision and Computational Neuroscience

Reading Assignment : http://iLab.usc.edu/publications/Itti_Koch01nrn.html

Three questions: (pick one and answer it in a one-page essay that you will
hand in to the TA Sheng Shi on monday, January 27th, at noon in class):
Please be sure to include your 2-digit class ID # on your essay.
1) Why is it a challenge to build machines that "see" while this is so
natural to us?
2) How do bottom-up and top-down attention control signals interact
during the analysis of a visual scene?
3) Give an example and explain how the study of neuroscience and of the
brain can benefit engineering.

 

 

Introduction lecture notes

Visual Attention lecture notes