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The Laboratory for Computational Vision is an interdisciplinary research group at New York University, affiliated primarily with the Center for Neural Science, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the newly established Center for Computational Neuroscience at the FlatIron Institute. We are interested in the analysis and representation of visual information, including empirical study of the structure of visual scenes, construction of mathematical theories for representation and processing of that structure, implementation and simulation of biologically plausible instantiations of these theories, and psychophysical or (through collaboration) physiological investigations designed to test these theories. Funding for the lab has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Simons Foundation, the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Visual Neuroscience at NYU, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Principal Investigator: Eero Simoncelli.
News

11/30/2023: Nikhil successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Parthasarathy!

7/11/2023: Lyndon successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Duong!

4/19/2023: Eero spoke at A Multiscale tour of Harmonic Analysis and Machine Learning, a celebration of Stéphane Mallat's 60th birthday. [youTube video]

4/4/2023: Paul successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Levy!

10/19/2022: Eero gave a plenary talk at the Int'l Conference on Image Processing in Bordeaux, on "Photographic image priors in the era of machine learning" [Recorded video of similar talk at Harvard].

6/6/2022: Colin successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Bredenberg!

4/16/2022: Billy successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Broderick!

4/6/2022: Caroline successfully defended her Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Haimerl!

3/7/2022: Sreyas successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Mohan!

10/21/2021: Eero spoke at the Champalimaud Research Symposium on "Metric properties of neural representation" (video online).

10/2021: Kate Bonnen has moved to Indiana to start her faculty position in the School of Optometry. Congratulations, Kate!

1/2021: Eero has resigned his HHMI investigatorship to lead the Center for Computational Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation

1/2021: Sean Welleck interviewed Eero on the Thesis Review podcast.

12/2020: Eero's talk (passcode: 7m0Usdd+) at the Mathematics of Deep Learning seminar (Simons Foundation), on Learning and Using Image Priors with Deep Neural Networks. Similar talk at the deepMath-2020 meeting. Pubs iclr20, arxiv20.

4/2020: Sreyas & Zahra's video presentation at ICLR - robust/generalizable/interpretable denoising with Deep CNNs.

9/2019: Mathematical Tools for Neural and Cognitive Science - PhD course lectures now on YouTube. Fundamentals of data analysis and modeling.

7/2019: Eero's talk at CVSS

4/2019: Eero elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

3/2019: Eero's talk at Nat'l Academy of Sciences Colloqium (The Science of Deep Learning).

9/2018: Eero's talk, at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Philadelphia.

9/2018: Olivier successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hénaff!

4/2018: Alex successfully defended his Doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Berardino!

3/2018: Eero's talk (#16), at Canonical Computation in Brains and Machines, NYU.

3/2/2018: Caroline's talk at Cosyne 2018.

2/2018: Eero's Curie Lecture, CSIC, Madrid.

1/2018: Eero's unofficial bio for Growing Up in Science

12/2017: Alex Berardino's NIPS-17 talk (at 24:00).

9/2017: First lecture of Math Tools for Neuroscience, with our new video camera :)

4/2017: ICLR-17, Eero's keynote (at 0:25) and Johannes' talk (at 1:08).

2/2017: Eero was awarded the 2016 Golden Brain Award for contributions to visual neuroscience

12/2016: IEEE Sustained Impact Paper Award for our SSIM paper

10/2016: Eero's talk Video/ Slides: Cascaded Gain Control Representations, at Banff Workshop

2/2016: Video: Brief interview w/Eero on role(s) of theory in neuroscience, Cosyne 2016

11/2015: Eero was named a Silver Professor of the NYU Faculty of Arts & Sciences.

12/2015: Eero's CDS interview: Overview of research, connections to data science.

9/2015: Eero has won an Emmy Award for development of the SSIM perceptual quality metric.

8/2015: Eero's talk Video/Slides: Texture/Metamers/V2 at Woods Hole

5/2015: Olivier's talk, local low dimensionality of natural images, ICLR-15

2011:: Talk, Metamers of the ventral stream. Dartmouth. video

2011: Webcast, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. Statistical image models: Engineering, Perception, and Neurobiology

Information

Phone/Address list
Travel directions
Lab Floor plan, Construction movie(10/02)


Positions

Postdoctoral Associates: Openings

Graduate Studies: Apply to the Neural Science, Data Science, or Mathematics PhD programs. General info on Neuroscience-related graduate programs at NYU.

Programming, technical support: seeking a matlab or python programmer for analysis of neural data. Send CV and brief description of experience to


Seminars/Meetings

LCV group meeting (weekly, no online listing)

Swartz Seminar on Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience

Math and Data seminar

Cognition & Perception colloquia

NeuroEconomics colloquia

Wavelets & harmonic analysis seminar

Seminars in other NYU Departments: CNS, Math, CS, Psych, NYU/Poly ECE

Outside NYU: Columbia NeuroTheory, Columbia neurosci, Columbia computer vision, Rutgers perception


Internal Lab Info (local access only)

LCV Calendar
Online journals: direct links,
LCV library: Reference books
LCV Members: Home addresses
LCV Computers: Current Load, Map
LCV Computer Help: FAQ, Filesystem, Software
Web server statistics: last 12 weeks | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
Tools: LateX, LateX-wiki, Slides in Latex




Created: February 2001.
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