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

This textbook Theoretical Neuroscience by Peter Dayan and LF Abbott can be a background reading.

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   

William Bialek
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
Markus Meister
Sheila Nirenberg
Pam Reinagel

(some) Labs on V1 or higher visual areas --- physiology

Yang Dan
Jack Gallant
Charlie D Gilbert
Tai Sing Lee
Peter Lennie
Robert Shapley
David van Essen

(some) labs/people on psychophysics related to V1 or low vision phenomena

Edward H Adelson
Christoph Nothdurft
Anne Treisman
Jeremy Wolfe