Rob Peters

I'm a post-doc in Laurent Itti's lab (iLab) at USC. I did my Ph.D. work in Christof Koch's lab (klab) in the Computation and Neural Systems program at Caltech. For all the details, here's my CV. Hello VSS 2007 attendees! I enjoyed meeting many of you in Sarasota this year. Here are quick links for those of you looking for my poster, as well as a related CVPR paper. Several people asked about the C++ toolkit that implements our various computational models; on the web we have general information and download information.

(213) 740-9223 http://ilab.usc.edu/rjpeters/ rjpeters at usc dot edu University of Southern California Hedco Neurosciences Building 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• RJ Peters, L Itti (2008). Applying computational tools to predict gaze direction in interactive visual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5(2), Article 8. (preprint fulltext/pdf)
• M Cerf, DR Cleary, RJ Peters, W Einhauser, C Koch (2007). Observers are consistent when rating image conspicuity. Vision Research, 47(24):3052--3060. (fulltext/pdf)
• RJ Peters, A Iyer, L Itti, C Koch (2005). Components of bottom-up gaze allocation in natural images. Vision Research, 45(18):2397--2416. (fulltext/pdf) (fulltext from Elsevier; requires subscription)
• RJ Peters, F Gabbiani, C Koch (2003). Human visual object categorization can be described by models with low memory capacity. Vision Research, 43(21):2265--2280. (fulltext/pdf) (fulltext from Elsevier; requires subscription)
• J Jovicich, RJ Peters, C Koch, J Braun, L Chang, T Ernst (2001). Brain areas specific for attentional load in a motion-tracking task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(8):1048--1058. (fulltext/pdf)
• RJ Peters, MA Osinski, JA Hongo, GL Bennett, AJ Okragly, M Haak-Frendscho, ML Epstein (1998). Glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is abundant in the adult rat gut. Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, 70(1--2):115--122. (fulltext/pdf)

Peer-reviewed full papers in conference proceedings

• RJ Peters, L Itti (2008). Congruence between model and human attention reveals unique signatures of critical visual events. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 21 (NIPS*2007). (preprint fulltext/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2007). Beyond bottom-up: Incorporating task-dependent influences into a computational model of spatial attention. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), 1--8. (fulltext/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2006). Computational mechanisms for gaze direction in interactive visual environments. Proceedings of the ACM Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) Symposium, 2006:20--27. (fulltext/pdf)
• D Chung, R Hirata, TN Mundhenk, J Ng, RJ Peters, E Pichon, A Tsui, T Ventrice, D Walther, P Williams, L Itti (2002). A New Robotics Platform for Neuromorphic Vision: Beobots. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2525(November):558--566. (fulltext/pdf)

Conference abstracts

• RJ Peters, L Itti (2007). Integrating low-level and high-level visual influences on eye movement behavior. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. (poster/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2006). Computational models for predicting gaze direction in interactive visual environments. 13th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation (JSNC), La Jolla, CA. (poster/pdf) (abstract/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2006). A computational model of task-dependent influences on eye position. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. (poster/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2006). Biological principles applied to geospatial intelligence data fusion. Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Colloquium, McLean, VA.
• RJ Peters, A Iyer, C Koch, L Itti (2005). Components of bottom-up gaze allocation in natural scenes. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. (poster/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti (2005). Biological principles applied to geospatial intelligence data fusion. Directorate of Central Intelligence (DCI) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Colloquium, McLean, VA.
• RJ Peters, TN Mundhenk, L Itti, C Koch (2003). Contour-facilitation in a model of bottom-up attention. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (poster/pdf)
• RJ Peters, L Itti, C Koch (2002). Eye movements are influenced by short-range interactions among orientation channels. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. (abstract/text)
• RJ Peters, A Backer, F Gabbiani, C Koch (2001). Human visual object categorization is best described by a model with few stored exemplars. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (poster/pdf) (abstract/text)
• RJ Peters, F Gabbiani, C Koch (2001). Models of object categorization reflect multiple categorization strategies. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. (poster/pdf) (abstract/text)
• J Jovicich, RJ Peters, C Koch, J Braun, L Chang, T Ernst (2001). Brain areas specific for attentional load in a motion tracking task. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. (abstract/pdf)
• RJ Peters, F Gabbiani, J Jovicich, T Ernst, L Chang, C Koch (2000). Psychophysics and physiology of figural perception in humans. ARVO Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (slides/html)
• J Jovicich, RJ Peters, C Koch, L Chang, T Ernst (2000). Human perception of faces and face cartoons: an fMRI study. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. (abstract/pdf)
• RJ Peters, F Gabbiani, J Jovicich, L Chang, T Ernst, C Koch (2000). Models of visual object recognition in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (poster/pdf)

Other publications

• RJ Peters (2004). Visual attention and object categorization: from psychophysics to computational models. Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology, Christof Koch, advisor. (fulltext/pdf)

Projects

• Modeling of bottom-up visual attention
• Collaborative work on C++ implementation of salience models of attention
• Development of a C++/Tcl graphics scripting framework, with applications in visual displays for psychophysics experiments and in computational modeling of vision — documentation, snapshots.

And more...

• Music
• Bookmarks
• Bibliography
• Computer FAQ (actually, a QIFAM)