Theoretical Understanding of early visual processes --- Course material, papers, resources, links
This webpage is for the purpose of teaching on this topic in Nordita master class in physics and other teachings on this topic. It is still under construction and updates will appear from time to time. Feedbacks on improving the material here are welcome by email.
First, read this review paper which contains much of the material in the lecture:.
Theoretical Understanding of early visual processes
Here is a previous lecture notes on the topic
Click here to get the codes and image files and play with
Webpages of experimental information
Webvision The organization of
the retina and visual system
Webvision --- Information on the Primary visual cortex (V1)
Retina Reference
Natural Stimuli collection
Tutorial on theoretical/computational vision
An old (1996) literature resource on natural stimulus statistics and neural coding
More information are: The following people or lab are working on, interested in, or have works related
to this (or related) topic, where related information maybe found. Labs/people on computational/theoretical vision
Horace Barlow
Tony Bell
Paul Bressloff
Jack D. Cowan
Dawei Dong
David Field
William T. Freeman
Aapo Hyvarinen
Laurent Itti
Christoph Koch
Peter Latham
Simon Laughlin
Ralph Linsker
Tai Sing Lee
Jean-Pierre Nadal
Alex Pouget
Bruno Olshausen
Nestor Parga
Paul Sajda
Odelia Schwartz
Rajesh P.N. Rao
Eero P. Simoncelli
Shimon Ullman
Hans van Hateren has information on
LMC, ICA, natural scenes etc.
Li Zhaoping
(some) Labs on retina, LGN --- physiology
Michael J Berry II(some) Labs on V1 or higher visual areas --- physiology
Yang Dan(some) labs/people on psychophysics related to V1 or low vision phenomena
Edward H Adelson
Christoph Nothdurft
Anne Treisman
Jeremy Wolfe