Reading materials before the lectures
You can either read this review paper: Zhaoping L. Theoretical Understanding of the early visual processes by data compression and data selection in Network: Computation in neural systems 17(4):301-334 (2006). Or, you can read its more pedagogical and expanded version , this version will be updated hopefully within days to include more details as they become available
If you want more details when reading the above, you can go to here and here for papers which are refered in this review paper. These papers can be read in more or less chronological order of the publication dates.
Zhaoping L. Understanding early visual coding from information theory
Zhaoping L. (2007) A bottom up visual saliency map in the primary visual cortex --- theory and its experimental tests
This webpage will be updated as more materials becomes available. Click here for more information about my research background/interest information, or click here to download other papers which are referenced by the reading/lecture material.