Title: Pot-pourri of low vision research 9 October 2017, 10h00, room Y506 (Byron building) Summary: Prof. Harold Bedell will present his recent research and findings in the domain of visual perception and eye movements with an emphasis on low-vision topics such as age-related macular diseases, amblyopia and pathological nystagmus.
Titre : Défis du calcul incarné dans les architectures neuromorphiques 13 July 2017, 14h30, room Y506 (Byron building) Résumé: Les réseaux de neurones artificiels, portés par les formidables capacités du cerveau biologique, n’ont cessé de s’affiner, ouvrant régulièrement de nouveaux domaines d’application (vision par ordinateur, machine learning, intelligence artificielle, prothèses…
Title: Fixational eye movements and fluctuations of accommodation: new roles for microsaccades? 30 March 2017, 11h00, room Y506 (Byron building) Abstract: Among fixational eye movements (FEMs) occurring during visual fixation, microsaccades have been shown to counteract visual fading and help to scan informative regions. I will present two recent and…
Title: Optimal image denoising modelling via PDE-constrained optimisation 21 March 2017, 11h00, room Y506 (Byron building) Abstract: Variational methods and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) have been extensively employed for the mathematical formulation of a myriad of problems describing physical phenomena such as heat propagation, thermodynamic transformations and many more. In…
Title: Invariant and selective representations with applications to visual cortex 6 March 2017, 11h00, room Y506 (Byron building) The present phase of Machine Learning is characterized by supervised learning algorithms relying on large sets of labeled examples. The next phase is likely to focus on algorithms capable of learning from…
February 20: Jennifer Sarah Goldman, PhD (McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital) will give us a talk entitled “Spectral Organization of Human Brain Activity” A mechanistic understanding of the mind remains one of the most substantive problems in science, but the probabilistic nature of neural signals seems to occlude…
