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Date Topic Slides Reading and Links
Week 1, January 10th

Class overview (Alyosha)

PPT VPfaCGP Ch. 1
Week 1, January 12th Physiology of the visual system (Alyosha) PPT VPfaCGP Ch. 2
Week 2, January 17th No class. Off for MLK day.    
Week 2, January 19th Class cancelled.  
Week 3, January 24th Physiology continued. (Lavanya) PPT
Week 3, January 26th Psychophysical Methods (Lavanya)

PPT

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Week 4, January 31st Philosophies of Vision (Alyosha) PPT  
Week 4, February 2nd Computational Theories of Vision (Alyosha) PPT
  1. Cavanagh (1995)
  2. Nakayama (1998)
Week 5, February 7th Color, lightness, brightness perception (Lavanya)

PPT

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Kingdom (2010)

Optional reading:

Week 5, February 9th

Paper presentation: Matt A

Color and reflectance (CVG) (Alyosha)

PPT
Week 6, February 14th Illumination, shading & shadows I (Alyosha & Lavanya)

PPT

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Week 6, February 16th

Illumination, shading & shadows II (Lavanya)

Paper presentation: Matt K

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Week 7, February 21st

Shadows CVG (Alyosha)

Shadows P (Lavanya)

PPT

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Week 7, February 23rd Textures (Alyosha + Lavanya)

PPT

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VPfaCGP Ch. 8
Week 8, February 28th Materials (Lavanya)   Adelson (2001)
Week 8, March 2nd

Shape & Materials CVG (Lavanya)

Paper presentation: Peter

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Week 9, March 14th

Categorization: Objects & Scenes (Alyosha)

Paper presentation: Peter (contd)

PPT
Week 9, March 16th

Categorization: Objects & Scenes P (Lavanya)

Categorization: Objects & Scenes CVG (Alyosha)

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PPT

Week 10, March 21st

Scenes (Alyosha)

Perspective perception (Lavanya)

PPT

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VPfaCGP Ch. 7
Week 10, March 23rd

Paper presentation: Peter

Paper presentation: Wooyoung

 
Week 11, March 28th Motion perception (Lavanya) PPT/.key Ostrovsky et al. (2010)
Week 11, March 30th Project presentations (everyone)    
Week 12, April 4th

Saliency & attention (Alyosha + Lavanya)

PPT

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Week 12, April 6th Paper presentation: Matt A  
Week 13, April 11th

Perception & Action (Alyosha)

Spatial cognition (Lavanya)

PPT  
Week 13, April 13th Spatial cognition contd. (Lavanya) PPT/.key VPfaCGP Ch. 13
Week 14, April 18th VASC Seminar: Wojciech Matusik    
Week 14, April 20th Guest lecture: Iain Matthews    
Week 14, April 25th

Paper presentation: Matt K

Face perception (Lavanya)

 
Week 14, April 27th

Paper presentation: Wooyoung

Perception & Art (Alyosha)

 
Week 15, May 2nd No class. Work on Synthesis Projects.    
Week 15, May 4th Synthesis project presentations.