- Block Seminar on "Optic Flow"
Special guest: Marcus Lappe (Psychological Institute II, University of Muenster)
Two papers have been already suggested for the presentation of the fellows:
1) Duffy CJ and Wurtz RH. Sensitivity of MST neurons to optic flow stimuli. I. + II. J Neurophysiol 65: 1329ff, 1991.
2) Warren Jr WH, Hannon DJ (1990) Eye movements and optical flow. J Opt Soc Am A 7:160 ?169.
Student papers: The literature is available in the internal area of this webpage [>>].
30th November, 2006.
- "Summer Seminar of Optimal Coding:
14.15 Eleni Papageorgiou (University Eye Hospital)
Presentation of the paper "Statistics of natural image categories" by
Antonio Torralba and Aude Oliva. Available as pdf file [>>]
15.00 Matthew Blaschko (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)
Presentation of the paper "Sparse coding with an overcomplete basis set:
a strategy employed by V1?" by Bruno Olshausen and David Field.Available as pdf file [>>]
15:45 Break
16:15 Invited talk by Laurenz Wiskott (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
"Slow Feature Analysis Yields a Rich Repertoire of Complex Cell
Properties"
Abstract:
Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) is an algorithm that we have
developed based on the slowness learning principle. SFA 'learns' functions that
extract slowly varying features from quickly varying high-dimensional
input signals. Applied to 'natural' image sequences SFA learns functions that
share many properties with complex cells in primary visual cortex, such
as Gabor-like optimal stimuli and phase invariance. We also find units
with no orientation selectivity, secondary response lobes, direction
selectivity, end-inhibition, or side-inhibition. The results can be
partially understood analytically based on variational calculus. I will
briefly mention also some other applications of SFA in neural modelling.
Berkes, P. and Wiskott, L. (2005). Slow feature analysis yields a rich
repertoire of complex cell properties. Journal of Vision, 5(6):579-602,
[>>]
Additional information on the topic of the paper presentation
Paper 1:
a) [>>];
b) [>>];
c) [>>];
d) [>>];
Paper 2:
"What does the retina know about natural scenes?" Joseph Atick and
Norman Redlich, Neural Computation 4:196-210 (1992). Also available as pdf file [>>]
Tuesday, 25. July, 2006. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28.
- Block Seminar on "Object Recognition"
Indroductory lecture: Matthias Franz, MPI
Student papers: The literature is available in the internal area of this webpage [>>].
If you have questions about the papers, please
contact Matthias Franz [>>] or Hanspeter Mallot [>>].
24. May, 2006, Wednesday 14.15h - 18h. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28.
- A very interesting meeting will take place in Lindau June 25-30th, 2006 in Bavaria: the Lindau Nobel prizewinners Annual Meeting announced by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION.
For the first time Marie-Curie fellows are invited to put forward their candidacy for participating in the 2006 Lindau meeting which provides a unique opportunity to get in personal contact with the most outstanding researchers from around the world in an atmosphere of shared endeavour (see attachment for further details) [>>]
- The next obligatory Training Courses will take place in Tübingen (Germany), 15 - 19 May, 2006. The following courses will be offered:
- International Project Management I
- International Project Management II
- Team Building Measures
- How to write a competitive proposal
- Progress Reports of the Fellows
The courses will be held in conjunction with two other European training projects. Please find hier a final detailed Agenda as pdf file (1 MB) [>>].
- Meeting to discuss and decide the future PERACT activities.
11.04.06, Tuesday at 16.00h o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- 07.02.06: Scotopic and colour vision at AG Werner’s lab
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock.
FEO (University Eye-Hospital) / Roentgenweg 13
- 24.01.06: Prof. Rolf Ulrich "Mental Representation of brief time Intervals"
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- Juan Saez Pons had the most nominated poster from the Marie Curie Pisa-Livorno Conference, 20-30th September 2005 "Making Europe more attractive for Researchers" [>>]. Juan was able to communicate and make research more understandable to society. Thank you and congratulations! The poster is here available as PDF file (1,5 MB) [>>]
- 10.01.06: still open
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- 20.12.05: Ms Elisabeth Hein (Presentation of her dissertation).
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- 06.12.05: M. Stüttgen: Impact of kinematic parameters of whisker deflection on detectability in rats
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- The PERACT project will be presented by the SWM team at the CER 2005 (14 - 15 November, Brussels). The PERACT poster and flyers are also available as PDF file / Poster (380 KB) [>>] or high resolution zipped eps file, ready to be printed (70 cm x 50 cm) (7.5 MB) [>>]. Flyer (280 KB) [>>].
- A nice Pic of the Fellows, who participated to the Training course from June 20th until June 23rd 2005 [>>]
- Start of the new GKKN and PERACT Seminar for PhD students, 25th October.
To this purpose there will be a General introduction about the research at
the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain research, Department of Cognitive Neurology
(Prof. Ilg and Prof. Thier).
5-6 students will present, in rotation their work. Start of the programm at 16:15h.
- The 1st Periodic Report of the ‚PERACT’ project covering the reporting period
2004/2005 is available in the internal area of this homepage [>>]
- The Evaluations of the Ethics and Presentation Courses
(June, 2005 / Tübingen, Germany) available in internal area [>>]
- Studium Generale SS 2005 [>>]
- 7th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionsgesellschaft [>>]
September 7-9, 2005 in Basel, Switzerland
- Training course from June 20th until June 23rd 2005.
For further details, please download the following PDF file [>>]
-
22.11.05: Y. Jin: What attracts attention in non-navigation tasks, a control study
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- 08.11.05: I. Steiner: Syntactic Processing with Neural Networks
Tuesday at 17.15 o' clock. Seminar room A 23 / 7th floor / Building E / Morgenstelle 28
- TWK 8th Tübingen Perception Conference [>>]
25th - 27th Feb 2005, Tübingen
- 1st PERACT Fellows Meeting
Tuesday, 1st March, 19:00 h. S'Urige, Metzgergasse 6, Tübingen
http://www.wurstkueche.com/html/urige.htm
- Interdisciplinary College 2005 [>>]
March 4 - 11, 2005 Günne at Lake Möhne
Focus Theme: Real, Mental and Virtual Space
- Talk of Jochen Zeil (Canberra ACT, Australia)
Avril 19th, 2005 in GKKN auf der Morgenstelle 28, Tübingen
- Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, Summer Term 2005:
"Spatial Cognition"
Thursdays, 14.15-16.00 h
Start and Registration: Thursday, April 14th, 14.15 h
Seminar Room E7 A23 / Auf der Morgenstelle 28
For further details, please download the following PDF file [>>]
- Course and Lecture, Summer Term 2005:
"Measuring and Evaluation Methods in Biology"
Lecture: Mondays, 11.15-13.00 h or on appointment
Course: Tuesdays, 13.30-17.00 h
Start and Registration: Monday, April 11th, 11.15 h
Seminar Room E7 A23 / Auf der Morgenstelle 28
For further details, please download the following PDF file [>>]
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