NIPS96 workshop on natural images

[Bruno A. Olshausen]

NIPS96 workshop announcement:
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      The structure of natural images and efficient image coding

	     Organized by Dan Ruderman and Bruno Olshausen

  This one-day workshop will cover recent work on natural image
  statistics and their relation to visual system design. The discovery
  of scaling in natural images (Burton and Moorhead 1987, Field 1987,
  Tolhurst et al 1992, Ruderman and Bialek 1994, Dong and Atick 1995,
  van der Schaaf and van Hateren 1996) has led to much interest in their
  statistical structure as well as the constraints these statistics
  place on efficient coding in the visual system. The work of Atick and
  Redlich (1990) in particular has demonstrated how the statistics of
  images may be combined with the efficiency principles of Attneave and
  Barlow to make quantitative predictions about the properties of
  ganglion cell receptive fields. Many researchers since have followed
  suit with other optimization strategies, such as sparse coding
  (Olshausen and Field 1996, Fyfe and Baddeley 1995) and information
  maximization (Bell and Sejnowski 1996), in an attempt to relate the
  response properties of cortical cells to the statistics of natural
  images in terms of efficient coding. This forum will offer the first
  open informal discussion of this rapidly-evolving approach toward
  understanding the visual system.

  Participants:

  Roland Baddeley, Oxford University
  Tony Bell, Salk Institute
  Dawei Dong, Caltech
  David Field, Cornell University
  Jack Gallant, U.C. Berkeley
  Hans van Hateren, University of Groningen
  David Mumford, Harvard University
  Penio Penev, Rockefeller University
  Pam Reinagel, Caltech
  Harel Shouval, Brown University
  Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno
  Tony Zador, Salk Institute

  See the web site, http://redwood.ucdavis.edu/NIPS96/abstracts.html, for
  abstracts and further information.