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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.
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.