9.459 | Spring 2006 | Undergraduate

Scene Understanding Symposium

Lecture Notes

The following presentations were given at the 2006 Scene Understanding Symposium. All lecture notes are courtesy of the person named and used with permission.

TIME TOPICS
8:55 Opening Remarks
9:00-9:20 From Zero to Gist in 200 msec: The Time Course of Scene Recognition (PDF - 1.3 MB) (Courtesy of Aude Oliva and Michelle Greene.)
9:20-9:45 Feedforward Theories of Visual Cortex Predict Human Performance in Rapid Image Categorization (PDF - 4.4 MB) (Courtesy of Thomas Serre and Tomaso Poggio.)
9:45-10:05 Latency, Duration and Codes for Objects in Inferior Temporal Cortex (PDF - 1.9 MB) (Courtesy of Gabriel Kreiman, Chou Hung, Tomaso Poggio and James DiCarlo.)
10:25-10:50 From Feedforward Vision to Natural Vision: The Impact of Free Viewing, Task, and Clutter on Monkey Inferior Temporal Object Representations (PDF - 1.6 MB) (Courtesy of James DiCarlo.)
10:50-11:10 Invariant Visual Representations of Natural Images by Single Neurons in the Human Brain
11:10-11:40 Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes and the Role of Attention (PDF) (Courtesy of Karla Evans and Anne Treisman.)
1:00-1:25 Natural Scene Categorization: From Humans to Computers (PDF - 5.3 MB) (Courtesy of Li Fei-Fei, Rufin VanRullen, Asha Iyer, Christof Koch and Pietro Perona.)
1:25-1:50 Contextual Associations in the Brain
1:50-2:15 Using the Forest to See the Trees: A Computational Model Relating Features, Objects and Scenes (PDF - 1.2 MB) (Courtesy of Antonio Torralba, Kevin Murphy, and William T. Freeman.)
2:25-2:45 Detecting and Remembering Pictures With and Without Visual Noise
2:45-3:05 Scene Perception after Those First Few Hundred Milliseconds (PDF) (Courtesy of Jeremy M. Wolfe.)
3:05-3:35 The Artist as Neuroscientist
4:00-5:00 Brain and Cognitive Sciences Colloquium - Scene Processing with a Wave of Spikes: Reverse Engineering the Visual System

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