Understanding Vision: Theory, Models, and Data

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Li Zhaoping (Professor, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK)

Understanding Vision

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Theory, Models, and Data

Li Zhaoping (Professor, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK)

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Oxford University Press
17 July 2014

Experimental psychology; Perception; Ophthalmology; Neurosciences

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain.

Understanding Vision explains the computational principles and models of biological visual processing, and in particular, of primate vision. The book is written in such a way that vision scientists, unfamiliar with mathematical details, should be able to conceptually follow the theoretical principles and their relationship with physiological, anatomical, and psychological observations, without going through the more mathematical pages. For those with a physical science background, especially those from machine vision, this book serves as an analytical introduction to biological vision. It can be used as a textbook or a reference book in a vision course, or a computational neuroscience course for graduate students or advanced undergraduate students. It is also suitable for self-learning by motivated readers.

in addition, for those with a focused interest in just one of the topics in the book, it is feasible to read just the chapter on this topic without having read or fully comprehended the other chapters. In particular, Chapter 2 presents a brief overview of experimental observations on biological vision; Chapter 3 is on encoding of visual inputs, Chapter 5 is on visual attentional selection driven by sensory inputs, and Chapter 6 is on visual perception or decoding.

Including many examples that clearly illustrate the application of computational principles to experimental observations, Understanding Vision is valuable for students and researchers in computational neuroscience, vision science, machine and computer vision, as well as physicists interested in visual processes.

By: Li Zhaoping (Professor Professor Department of Computer Science University College London UK)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 938g
ISBN: 9780199564668
ISBN 10: 0199564663
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 17 July 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Approach and Scope 2: A Very Brief Introduction of What is Known about Vision Experimentally 3: The Efficient Coding Principle 4: V1 and Information Coding 5: The V1 Hypothesis - creating a bottom up saliency map for preattentive selection and segmentation 6: Visual Recognition as Decoding 7: Epilogue

Li Zhaoping obtained her Ph.D. in physics in 1989 from the California Institute of Technology. In 1998, she helped to found the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in University College London, where she is currently a professor in Computational Neuroscience in its computer science department.

Reviews for Understanding Vision: Theory, Models, and Data

[This book] demonstrates a beautifully logical approach that has been the hallmark of Zhaopings career and which more is needed of to carry the field forward. The preciseness of the mathematics avoids the confusion often entailed when talking about perception, and it is a great example of how models can provide clear insight into a complex biological system. Szonya Durant, Perception