Understanding Vision: theory, models, and data --- a book (by Oxford University Press) published May 2014,
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Chapter 1: Approach and Scope
Figures in a pptx fileChapter 2: A Very Brief Introduction of What is Known about Vision Experimentally
Figures in a pptx fileChapter 3: The Efficient Coding Principle
Figures in a pptx fileA video of an introductory lectureSlides from a lecture on this topic in ACCN 2014 summer schoolChapter 4: V1 and Information Coding
Figures in a pptx fileChapter 5: The V1 Hypothesis - Creating a Bottom up Saliency map for Preattentive Selection and Segmentation.
You can read it in the sample chapters of the book Figures in a pptx file A video of an introductory lecture 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 chapterChapter 6: Visual Recognition as Decoding.
Figures in a pptx fileTwo video lectures of introductory tutorialSlides from a lecture on color discrimination (cf. section 6.3.4 of the book) in Kongsberg Vision Meeting Oct. 2014Chapter 7: Epilogue .
A blog article Are we too "smart" to understand how we see?This review paper below may be seen as a very abbreviated version of some selected sections in chapters 3-5 of the book :.
L. Zhaoping (2006) Theoretical Understanding of early visual processes by data compression and data selection in Network: Computation in neural systems 17(4):301-334 (2006).