G89.2223
Perception
Fall 2009

Monday/Wednesday
4 pm - 5:15
Room 851 Meyer Hall

Last updated: July 27, 2009

9/9-21	Detection and Cue Integration (Landy) Principles Readings: Wandell App 3; Signal Detection Theory handout; Hecht et al. (1942); Geisler (1989). Supplementary readings: Cornsweet, T. N. (1970). Visual Perception. New York: Academic Press (chs. 2-4); Duda, R. O., Hart, P. E. & Stork, D. G. (2001). Pattern Classification. New York: Wiley (chs. 2-3); Green, D. M. & Swets, J. A. (1966/1974) Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics. New York: Robert E. Krieger; Macmillan, N. A. & Creelman, C. D. (1991). Detection Theory: A User's Guide. New York: Cambridge; Wickens, T. D. (2002). Elementary Signal Detection Theory. New York: Oxford; Coombs, C. H., Dawes, R. M. & Tversky, A. (1970). Mathematical Psychology, An Elementary Introduction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (ch. 6). Additional readings about retinal responses near absolute threshold: Field, Sampath & Rieke (2005); Chichilnisky & Rieke (2005). Signal detection tutorial (zip archive of matlab code) Lecture slides (pdf)
9/23-30 Note: no class 9/28	Cue Combination and Statistical Decision Theory (Landy) Principles Readings: Landy, Maloney, Johnston & Young (1995); Ernst & Banks (2002); Knill, Kersten & Yuille (1996); Mamassian, Landy & Maloney (2003), pp. 13-22; Körding et al. Supplementary readings: Saunders & Knill (2005); Maloney (2002), pp. 145-177; Dean, Wu & Maloney (2007); Battaglia & Schrater (2007) Books for background reading on Bayesian estimation and decision theory (optional): Leanard & Hsu, Bayesian Methods: An analysis for statisticians and interdisciplinary researchers; Sivia, Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial. Lecture slides (7 MB pdf) Lecture notes on depth (from undergrad perception course)
10/5-14	Color: Trichromacy, Color Opponency, & Chromatic Adaptation (Maloney) Principles Readings: Wandell Chs 1, 3, 4, & 9. Lecture slides: Color slides part I Color slides part II Color slides part III Lecture notes: Lecture notes on color (from undergrad perception course) Lecture notes on the retina (from undergrad perception course) Color matching tutorial (100 KB, zip archive of matlab code)
10/19 - 11/4	Spatial Vision, Linear Systems Theory and Auditory Channels (Landy/Poeppel) Principles Readings: Wandell Chs 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, & App 1; Signals, Linear Systems, & Convolution Handout. Auditory readings: Moore, first 10 pages of Painter & Spanias Supplementary readings: Blakemore, C. & Sutton, P. (1969). Size adaptation: A new aftereffect. Science, 166, 245-247. Campbell, F. W. & Gubisch, R. W. (1966).Optical quality of the human eye. Journal of Physiology, 186, 558-578. Campbell, F. W. & Robson, J. G. (1968). Application of Fourier analysis to the visibility of gratings. Journal of Physiology, 197, 551-566. Graham, N. (1980). Spatial-frequency channels in human vision: Detecting edges without edge detectors. In Harris, C. (Ed.), Visual Coding and Adaptability (pp. 215-252). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Graham, N. & Nachmias, J. (1971). Detection of grating patterns containing two spatial frequencies: A comparison of single-channel and multiple-channels models. Vision Research, 11, 251-259. Watson, A. B. & Robson, J. G. (1981). Discrimination at threshold: Labelled detectors in human vision. Vision Research, 21, 1115-1122. Wilson, H. R., McFarlane, D. K. & Phillips, G. C. (1983). Spatial frequency tuning by orientation selective units estimated by oblique masking. Vision Research, 23, 873-882. Bracewell, R. N. (2003). Fourier Analysis and Imaging. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. Lecture slides (pdf) David Poeppel's lecture slides (pdf) Matlab tutorials, Note: Add the subdirectory "pyrTools" along with all its subdirectories to get these tutorials to work.
11/9-18	Visual Motion Perception (Heeger) Principles Readings: Wandell Ch 10 & App 5; Adelson & Bergen (1985); Adelson & Movshon (1982); Weiss, Simoncelli, & Adelson (2002). Supplementary readings: Simoncelli & Heeger (1998); Huk & Heeger (2002); Motion estimation handout. Lecture slides: Motion intro lecture slides (2MB pdf) Functional specialization lecture slides (5.9MB pdf) Computational theory lecture slides (7.1MB pdf) Lecture notes: Lecture notes on motion (from undergrad perception course) Lecture notes on the visual cortex (from undergrad perception course) Matlab code: Motion tutorial (160KB zipped archive, requires matlabPyrTools) MT model (matlab code available for download)
11/23 - 12/7 Note: no class 11/25	Attention (Carrasco) Readings: Carrasco (2006); Lu & Dosher (2004); Dosher & Lu (2000); Carrasco & Yeshurun (1998); Wolfe (1998); Palmer (1995); Reynolds, Pasternak, & Desimone (2000). Lecture slides: Lecture slides - part 1 (2.2MB powerpoint) Lecture slides - part 2 (2.7MB powerpoint) Lecture slides - part 3a (480 KB powerpoint) Lecture slides - part 3b (12.7MB powerpoint)
12/9-14	Recognition (Pelli) Readings: Rosch et al. (1976); Pelli & Tillman (2008) with supplementary material; Treisman & Kanwisher (1998); Ranzato, Huang, Boureeau, & LeCun (2007). Lecture slides: Part 1 (2.9 MB pdf) Part 2 (7.1 MB pdf) Part 3 (1.9 MB pdf) Part 4 (9.8 MB pdf)