1. Education
The interdisciplinary course, Art and Visual Perception,
introduces neuroscience, psychology, visual art and computer science to college students at a very early stage
so that they
- get exposed to various disciplines before making a knowing choice of an area of concentration
- learn how to visually communicate their ideas
- appreciate the challenge in visual perception and become inspired to study vision from various angles.
This course fulfills Fine Arts Core requirement starting from Fall 2007.
2. Experiments
We investigate human perception through a series of eye tracking experiments which reveal what visual information is essential for a human viewer to perform a detection or recognition task.
Ongoing projects are:
- scene categorization
- change detection
- motion perception
The experimental data provide insights into what features and how they are computed in certain visual routines.
3. Computation
Understanding both the peculiarity of human vision and the universality of computational constraints
allows us to better computation in the areas of:
- image and video compression
- brightness and color perception
- scene layout inference
- motion depiction
Check back on us as we make progress on these fronts.
Current Lab Members
| Kyle Tierney, | graduate student in Psychology |
| Callie McGrath, | undergraduate in Psychology |
| Jeff Sun, | undergraduate in Mathematics |
| David Tolioupov, | undergraduate in Computer Science |
Past Lab Members
| Dr. Dimitri Lisin, | now at VideoIQ.com |
| Marcus Woods, | undergraduate in Communications and Psychology |
| Sebastian Skradal, | undergraduate in Computer Science |
| Peter Sempolinski, | undergraduate in Computer Science |
Last updated on 17-Oct-2007.