Scene Understanding Symposium

Calendar

TIME	TOPICS	SPEAKERS
8:55	Opening Remarks
9:00-9:20	From Zero to Gist in 200 msec: The Time Course of Scene Recognition	Aude Oliva and Michelle Greene, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
9:20-9:45	Feedforward Theories of Visual Cortex Predict Human Performance in Rapid Image Categorization	Thomas Serre and Tomaso Poggio, MIT McGovern Institute
9:45-10:05	Latency, Duration and Codes for Objects in Inferior Temporal Cortex	Gabriel Kreiman, Chou Hung, Tomaso Poggio and James DiCarlo, MIT McGovern Institute and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
10:25-10:50	From Feedforward Vision to Natural Vision: The Impact of Free Viewing, Task, and Clutter on Monkey Inferior Temporal Object Representations	James DiCarlo, MIT McGovern Institute
10:50-11:10	Invariant Visual Representations of Natural Images by Single Neurons in the Human Brain	Leila Reddy (MIT McGovern Institute), Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Gabriel Kreiman, Christof Koch and Itzhak Fried
11:10-11:40	Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes and the Role of Attention	Anne Treisman and Karla Evans, Princeton University
1:00-1:25	Natural Scene Categorization: From Humans to Computers	Li Fei-Fei (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rufin VanRullen, Asha Iyer, Christof Koch and Pietro Perona
1:25-1:50	Contextual Associations in the Brain	Moshe Bar, Elissa Aminoff and Nurit Gronau, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
1:50-2:15	Using the Forest to See the Trees: A Computational Model Relating Features, Objects and Scenes	Antonio Torralba, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
2:25-2:45	Detecting and Remembering Pictures With and Without Visual Noise	Mary Potter and Ming Meng, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
2:45-3:05	Scene Perception after Those First Few Hundred Milliseconds	Jeremy Wolfe, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
3:05-3:35	The Artist as Neuroscientist	Patrick Cavanagh, Vision Sciences Lab, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
4:00-5:00	Brain and Cognitive Sciences Colloquium - Scene Processing with a Wave of Spikes: Reverse Engineering the Visual System	Simon Thorpe, CNRS and SpikeNet Technology, France