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List of Interesting Papers

CNBC Computational Neuroscience Group

Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Place: Mellon Institute 115 Conference Room
Current Schedule

Date	Presenter	Food Provider	Papers	Presentation
1/12/2005	Mike Lewicki	Eizaburo Doi
1/19/2005	---	---	Canceled for faculty meeting
1/26/2005	Brian Potetz	Tai Sing Lee	Olshausen,Field (2004) "What is the other 85% of V1 doing?"	slides
2/2/2005	Eizaburo Doi	Yan Karklin	Hinton (2002) "Training Product of Experts by Minimizing Contrastive Divergence" Teh et al. (2003) "Energy-Based Models for Sparse Overcomplete Representations"
2/16/2005	Yan Karklin	Brian Potetz	Fleming, Torralba, Adelson (2004). "Specular reflections and the perception of shape"	slides
2/23/2005	Tai Sing Lee	Jason Samonds	Marcus & Van Essen (2002). "Figure-ground signals in V1 and V2", Rossi et al. (2001). "Figure-ground signals do not exist in V1 and V2"
3/2/2005	Jason Samonds	Jing Chen	Howe & Purves (2005). “Natural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation” Howe & Purves (2005). “The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships”
3/9/2005	Jing Chen	Matt Smith	Spratling and Johnson, 2004. "A feedback model of visual attention"
3/23/2005	Ryan Kelly	Doru Balcan	George, Hawkins (2004). Invariant Pattern Recognition using Bayesian Inference on Hierarchical Sequences George, Hawkins (2005). A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Invariant Pattern Recognition in the Visual Cortex
4/6/2005	Doru Balcan	Tom Stepleton	Edelman, Arias, and Smith (1998). The Geometry of Algorithms with Orthogonality Constraints Amari (1999). Natural Gradient Learning for Over- and Under-Complete Bases in ICA
4/13/2005	Tom Stepleton	Ryan Kelly	K.S. Pedersen and A.B. Lee (2002). Toward a Full Probability Model of Edges in Natural Images.

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Notes

The official order list is kept here. If you are presenting, please try to send an announcement to the cns group (cns-vision@cnbc.cmu.edu ) by the Friday before the meeting. Also remember to update this web page, which is located on condor in /home/httpd/www/cns/index.html. If you are getting food, plan for 12 people and try to have the food there by noon.

The CNS seminars are open to the public and are held on Wed at 12:00pm in Mellon Institute Rm 115, Carnegie Mellon University. If you would like to be on our cns-vision mailing list, please contact Dr. Tai Sing Lee at tai@cs.cmu.edu or Dr. Mike Lewicki at lewicki@cs.cmu.edu .