Visual Information Processing

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The goal of this course is to provide an overview of vision research, including the historical contexts, the methods, the paradigm shifts, and the fruitful results in vision research. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of vision research, this course will emphasize on how to study vision and how researchers solve the puzzle. In addition to introducing how the visual system encodes, represents, and interprets information, twenty-five classic papers will be introduced to portrait the historical progress of vision research.

Textbooks:

• Foundations of Vision. B. A. Wandell (1995).

• Seeing. Edited by K. K. De Valois (2000).

• Visual Perception: Essential Readings. Edited by S. Yantis (2001).

• The Neuropsychology of Vision. Edited by M. Fahle & M. Greenlee (2003).

• Active Vision: The Psychology of looking and seeing. J. M. Findlay & I. D. Gilchrist (2003).

Supplementary Readings (selected chapters only):

• De Valois & K.K. De Valois (1990). Spatial Vision. R.L.

• Norma V. S. Graham (1989). Visual Pattern Analyzer.

• David Marr (1982). Vision.

• Steve Palmer (1999). Vision Science.

• David Regan (2000). Human Perception of Object.

• C.W. Tyler (1996). Human Symmetry Perception and its Computational Analysis.

• Lothar Spillmann & John S. Werner (Eds.) (1990). Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological Foundations.

• Semir Zeki (1993). A Vision of the Brain.

•  John Cronly-Dillon (1990). Vision and Visual Dysfunction.

•  Arne Valberg & Barry B. Lee (1991). From Pigments to Perception, Advances in Understanding Visual Processes.

• David Hubel (1988). Eye, Brain, and Vision.

• Martha J. Farah (2000). The cognitive neuroscience of vision.