Neurons and Features

Invited Paper (1)

Ultra-Rapid Scene Categorization with a Wave of Spikes

Simon Thorpe

A Biologically Motivated Scheme for Robust Junction Detection

Thorsten Hansen, Heiko Neumann

Iterative Tuning of Simple Cells for Contrast Invariant Edge Enhancement

Marina Kolesnik, Alexander Barlit, Evgeny Zubkov

How the Spatial Filters of Area V1 Can Be Used for a Nearly Ideal Edge Detection

Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Walter Vanzella, Vincent Torre

Posters (1)

Improved Contour Detection by Non-classical Receptive Field Inhibition

Cosmin Grigorescu, Nicolai Petkov, Michel A. Westenberg

Contour Detection by Synchronization of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons

Etienne Hugues, Florent Guilleux, Olivier Rochel

Reading Speed and Superiority of Right Visual Field on Foveated Vision

Yukio Ishihara, Satoru Morita

A Model of Contour Integration in Early Visual Cortex

T. Nathan Mundhenk, Laurent Itti

Computational Cortical Cell Models for Continuity and Texture

Luis M. Santos, J.M. Hans du Buf

A Neural Model of Human Texture Processing: Texture Segmentation vs. Visual Search

Axel Thielscher, Anna Schuboe, Heiko Neumann

Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Colony of Cooperating Ants

Salima Ouadfel, Mohamed Batouche

Image Reconstruction from Gabor Magnitudes

Ingo J. Wundrieh, Christoph von der Maisburg, Rolf P. Wurtz

A Binocular Stereo Algorithm for Log-Polar Foveated Systems

Alexandre Bernardino, Jose Santos-Victor

Rotation-Invariant Optical Flow by Gaze-Depended Retino-Cortical Mapping

Markus A. Dahlem, Florentin Worgotter

An Analysis of the Motion Signal Distributions Emerging from Locomotion through a Natural Environment

Johannes M. Zanker, Jochen Zeil

Motion

Invited Paper (2)

Prototypes of Biological Movements in Brains and Machines

Martin A. Giese

Insect-Inspired Estimation of Self-Motion

Matthias O. Franz. Javaan S. Chahl

Tracking through Optical Snow

Michael S. Langer, Richard Mann

On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges

Ohad Ben-Shahar, Patrick S. Huggins, Steven W. Zucker

Biological Motion of Speech

Gregor A. Kalberer, Pascal Müller, Luc Van Cool

Mid-Level Vision

Invited Paper (3)

Object Perception: Generative Image Models and Bayesian Inference

Daniel Kersten

The Role of Propagation and Medial Geometry in Hunan Vision

Benjamin Kimia, Asir Tamrakar

Ecological Statistics of Contour Grouping

James H. Elder

Statistics of Second Order Multi-Modal Feature Events and Their Exploitation in Biological and Artificial Visual Systems

Norbert Kruger, Florentin Worgotter

Recognition - From Scenes to Neurons

Invited Paper (4)

Qualitative Representations for Recognition

Pawan Sinha

Scene-Centered Description from Spatial Envelope Properties

Aude Oliva, Antonio Torralba

Visual Categorization: How the Monkey Brain Does It

Ulf Knoblich, Maximilian Riesenhuber, David J. Freedman, Earl K. Miller, Tomaso Poggio

A New Approach towards Vision Suggested by Biologically Realistic Neural Microcircuit Models

Wolfgang Maass, Robert Legenstein, Henry Markram

Posters (2)

Interpreting LOC Cell Responses

David S. Bolme, Bruce A. Draper

Neural Mechanisms of Visual Flow Integration and Segregation Insights from the Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion and Variations of It

Pierre Bagerl, Heiko Neumann

Reconstruction of Subjective Surfaces from Occlusion Cues

Naoki Kogo, Christoph Strecha, Rik Fransen, Geert Caenen, Johan Wagemans, Luc Van Cool

Extraction of Object Representations from Stereo Image Sequences Utilizing Statistical and Deterministic Regularities in Visual Data

Norbert Krüger, Thomas Jager, Christian Perwass

A Method of Extracting Objects of Interest with Possible Broad Application in Computer Vision

Kyungjoo Cheoz, Yillbyung Lee

Medical Ultrasound Image Similarity Measurement by Human Visual System (HVS) Modelling

Darryl de Cunha, Leila Eadie, Benjamin Adams, David Hawkes

Seeing People in the Dark: Face Recognition in Infrared Images

Gil Friedrich, Yehezkel Yeshurun

Modeling Insect Compound Eyes: Space-Variant Spherical Vision

Titus R. Neumann

Facial and Eye Gaze Detection

Kang Ryoung Park, Jeong Jun Lee, Jaihie Kim

1-Click Learning of Object Models for Recognition

Hartmut S. Loos, Christoph von der Malsburg

On the Role of Object-Specific Features for Real World Object Recognition in Biological Vision

Thomas Serre, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Jennifer Louie, Tomaso Poggio

Object Detection in Natural Scenes by Feedback

Fred H. Hamker, James Worcester

Stochastic Guided Search Model for Search Asymmetries in Visual Search Tasks

Takahiko Koike, Jun Saiki

Biologically Inspired Saliency Map Model for Bottom-up Visual Attention

Sang-Jae Park, Jang-Kyoo Shin, Minho Lee

Hierarchical Selectivity for Object-Based Visual Attention

Yaoru Sun, Robert Fisher

Attention

Invited Paper (5)

Attending to Motion: Localizing and Classifying Motion Patterns in Image Sequences

John K. Tsotsos, Marc Pomplun, Yueju Liu, Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo, Evgueni Simine

A Goal Oriented Attention Guidance Model

Vidhya Navalpakkam, Laurent Itti

Visual Attention Using Game Theory

Ola Ramstrom, Henrik I. Christensen

Attentional Selection for Object Recognition - A Gentle Way

Dirk Walther, Laurent Itti, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio, Christof Koch

Audio-Oculomotor Transformation

Robert Frans van der Willigen, Mark von Campenhausen

Posters (3)

Gender Classification of Human Faces

Arnulf B.A. Graf, Felix A. Wichmann

Face Reconstruction from Partial Information Based on a Morphable Face Model

Bon-Woo Hwang, Seong-Whan Lee

Dynamics of Face Categorization

Jeoughoon Kim

Recognizing Expressions by Direct Estimation of the Parameters of a Pixel Morphable Model

Vinay P. Kumar, Tomaso Poggio

Modeling of Movement Sequences Based on Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Correspondence of Movement Primitives

Winfried Ilg, Martin Giese

Automatic Synthesis of Sequences of Human Movements by Linear Combination of Learned Example Patterns

Martin A. Giese, Barbara Knappmeyer, Heinrich H. Biilthoff

An Adaptive Hierarchical Model of the Ventral Visual Pathway Implemented on a Mobile Robot

Alistair Bray

A New Robotics Platform for Neuromorphic Vision: Beobots

Daesu Chung, Reid Hirata, T. Nathan Mundhenk, Jen Ng, Rob J. Peters, Eric Pichon, April Tsui, Tong Ventrice, Dirk Walther, Philip Williams, Laurent Itti

Learning to Act on Objects

Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio Sandini

Egocentric Direction and the Visual Guidance of Robot Locomotion Background, Theory and Implementation

Simon K. Rushton, Jia Wen, Robert S. Allison

Evolving Vision-Based Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Tancredi Merenda

Robotics

Object Detection and Classification for Outdoor Walking Guidance System

Seonghoon Kang, Seong-Whan Lee

Understanding Human Behaviors Based on Eye-Head-Hand Coordination

Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard

Vision-Based Homing with a Panoramic Stereo Sensor

Wolfgang Sturzl and Hanspeter A. Mallott

Cognitive Vision

Invited Paper (6)

Unsupervised Learning of Visual Structure

Shimon Edelman, Nathan Intrator, Judah S. Jacobson

Role of Featural and Configural Information in Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Recognition

Adrian Schwaninger, Janek S. Lobmaier, Stephan M. Collishaw

View-Based Recognition of Faces in Man and Machine: Re-visiting Inter-extra-Ortho

Christian Wanraven, Adrian Schwaninger, Sandra Schuhmacher, Heinrich H. Bulthoff

Author Index