Video lectures and materials that can be used for learning the materials in the textbook "Understanding Vision: theory, models, and data"

Table of contents of the book

Chapter 1: Approach and scope.

this is the introduction to the book. You can get a glimpse from this talk , which is best viewed together with the original slides (here is another version of this lecture, it has a better video quality and is adapted to an audience of largely physicists/theorists at KITP UC Santa Barbara.) Get a quick intro from the figures of this chapter.

Chapter 2: A very brief introduction of what is known about vision experimentally.

Get a quick intro from the figures of this chapter, or read one of many textbooks (typically focused on experimental facts) on vision.

Chapter 3: The efficient coding principle.

See this video lecture (51 minutes) for an overview: Introduction to Efficient Coding . In addition, here is a growing playlist of short video lecture clips , content is being added as more clips become made available.

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

Chapter 4: V1 and information coding.

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

It explains why efficient coding alone is not sufficient for understanding V1, can be skipped for a first reading of the book.

Chapter 5: The V1 hypothesis --- creating a bottom-up saliency map for preattentive selection and segmentation.

Part of this material can be learned from this one hour video lecture. Introduction to visual attention and visual salience

Here is the pdf file of this chapter as a free sample chapter of the book

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

This is the video of a presentation (its slides) at the plenary symposium "Visual perception meets computational neuroscience" at ECVP 2013 could be used as a short introduction to this chapter

Chapter 6: Visual recognition as decoding.

See the two lectures below.

Introduction to visual decoding ---part 1 is a 25-minute long lecture on the definitions and neural/behavioural observations of visual decoding

Introduction to visual decoding ---part 2 is a 51-minute long lecture on algorithms and examples of visual decoding

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

Other useful videos

This is the video of a presentation (its slides) at the plenary symposium "Visual perception meets computational neuroscience" at ECVP 2013, it can be used as a supplementary material for learning "Attention and salience"

This is the video of a presentation given on salience and V1 in Hebrew university, 2010