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

More videos/materials will be added as they become available.

Table of contents of the book

Chapter 1: Approach and scope.

Get a quick intro from this 3.5 minute video , and the figures of this chapter.

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.)

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.

In more detail, Here is a playlist of 15 shorter titled video clips, between 4:30 to 15:40 (average 9:48) minutes each .

For organized course with quizzes and other supports, go to this online course: Thinkific course chapter 2

Chapter 3: The efficient coding principle.

See this video lecture (51 minutes) for an overview: Introduction to Efficient Coding . In addition, here is a playlist of short video lecture clips (about 10 minutes each) .

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

For organized course with quizzes and other supports, go to this online course: Thinkific course chapter 3

Chapter 4: V1 and information coding.

It explains why efficient coding alone is not sufficient for understanding V1, summarized by this video: Problems with understanding V1 by efficient coding principles (15:20 minutes) . This chapter can be seen as an extension of chapter 3 in transition to chapter 5, or can be skipped in the first reading of the book.

Figures for this chapter in a pptx file

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 a play list of shorter video clips .

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.

For organized course with quizzes and other supports, go to this online course: Thinkific course chapter 5

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

For organized course with quizzes and other supports, go to this online course: Thinkific course chapter 6

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, it could be used for transition from chapter 3 to chapter 5 of the book. 

• This is the video of a presentation "Looking and seeing in human vision in light of a severe attentional processing bottleneck in the brain"  at the Redwood Seminar at Berkeley University, 2023.