Visual Cortex Workshop

[Klaus Obermayer]

The Graduiertenkolleg  "Signalling Chains in Living Systems"
(Randolf Menzel, PI) is organizing a visual cortex workshop
which takes place in Berlin, Germany, in December. 

The theme of the workshop is the interaction between 
experimentalists and modellers in the area of biological
vision. Participation is free, and all interested people are 
wellcome.

The workshop is sponsored by the German Science Foundation
via the Graduiertenkolleg, by HFSPO and by the
FU and TU Berlin.

Klaus Obermayer 


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Workshop on Experiments and Models of Visual Cortex

Friday, 13th of December, 1996

Institute for Computer Science, Free University of Berlin,
Takustrasse 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany


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PROGRAM:


 9.00   Wellcome and Introduction

 9.10   Ulf Eysel, U. Bochum,
        Lateral signal processing, response specificity and maps in 
        the visual cortex.
 
10.00   David Somers, MIT,
        Local and long-range circuit modeling of primary visual 
        cortex.


10.50 - 11.10 Break


11.10   Jack Cowan, U. Chicago,
        A simple model of orientation tuning and its consequences.

12.00   Bartlett Mel, USC,
        Translation-invariant orientation tuning in visual `complex'
        cells could derive from intradendritic computations.


12.50 - 14.30 Lunch


14.30   Rodney Douglas, ETH Zuerich,
        Computational principles in the microcircuits of the 
        neocortex.

15.20   Nikos Logothetis, Baylor College,
        On the neural mechanisms of perceptual multistability.


16.10 - 16.30 Break


16.30   Heinrich Buelthoff, MPI biol. Kybernetik,
        The view-based approach to high level vision.

17.20   Dana Ballard, U. Rochester
        The visual cortex as a hierarchical Kalman predictor.


18.10   Adjourn



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Abstracts and further information can be obtained via WWW at:

http://www.kon.cs.tu-berlin.de/colloq/symposium-dec96.html

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Prof. Klaus Obermayer             phone:  49-30-314-73442
FR2-1, KON, Informatik                    49-30-314-73120
Technische Universitaet Berlin    fax:    49-30-314-73121
Franklinstrasse 28/29             e-mail: oby at cs.tu-berlin.de
10587 Berlin, Germany