Talks: Perceptual Science Series

LECTURE (11am): "The Interesting Parts of Vision Happen Outside the Feedforward Pathway" John Tsotsos York University ABSTRACT . The overwhelming bulk of vision research regardless of discipline has focused

Prevailing over a century the neuronal paradigm of studying the brain has left us with limitations in our understanding of how the brain processes information to achieve biological intelligence. Overturning

Many kinds of visually-guided behavior must integrate perception working memory and long-term memory. For example selecting the ripest tomato requires an observer to compare the color of a tomato in

Perceptual metamers - stimuli that differ physically but appear the same - played a fundamental role in the development of the trichromatic theory of human color vision. Vision scientists of

Its a central fact that animals have the brains and plants do not making it inescapable that a central role of the brain is to direct movement. Given this context

Visual experience involves not only physical features such as color and shape but also seemingly higher-level properties such as animacy and intentionality. Even simple geometric shapes can be automatically and

Recognition in computer vision is beginning to work -- one of the hot current lines of inquiry is what we should be recognizing. Recent work -- our own and others

The hope inherent in pursuing basic research is that sometime in the future the work will prove beneficial to society. This fruition can take many years or even decades.

Prediction and extrapolation form key problems in many perceptual tasks which are particularly salient in processing object motion. In the first part of the talk I will address the problem

THE 3rd ANNUAL PERCEPTUAL SCIENCE FORUM NSF/IGERT Interdisciplinary Training in Perceptual Science* MONDAY MAY 4th 2009 Rutgers Busch Campus CoRE Atrium & Auditorium 10:30 - 12:15 Posters 12:15

For both humans and machines the ability to learn and recognize the semantically meaningful contents of the visual world is an essential and important functionality. In this talk we will