Hi everyone, please complete the assignment #4 (morphing of faces) by Tuesday this week.

Assignment #5: Design a simple experiment to demonstrate blind spot in retina. Also explain why we don’t perceive blind spot in our natural vision.

Amin would have an additional assignment to tell us the theories proposed for explaining Hermann grid illusion :)

In the first session after Eid (Yekshanbe, 19 Farvardin), Amir Farzmahdi (a brilliant PhD student of cognitive neuroscience in IPM) will be an invited lecturer to speak about Deep Neural Networks and Human Vision. This would be an interesting session, and it is highly recommended.

Slides of sessions 7,8,9 👇

Spike-triggered average is also called “reverse correlation”.

Today is 4shanbe-soori! Participation in today’s class is optional. We will show a movie about recording of V1 cells.

A movie that was shown in session 10:

Another video shared by Hossein 👆👆

Here is a more complete version of the movie. (needs to be opened on a PC)

Amir’s slides

طبق صحبت های انجام شده امروز سر کلاس، امتحان میان ترم بصورت closed-book و امتحان پایان ترم بصورت open-book برگزار خواهد شد. در امتحان میان ترم، حدود ۶-۸ سوال مفهومی از مباحث ارائه شده داده خواهد شد که شما پاسخ آنها را در ۲ ساعت به فارسی خواهید نوشت. دو پیشنهاد ۲۸ فروردین و ۹ اردیبهشت برای تاریخ امتحان میان ترم مطرح شد. لطفا با ارسال ایمیل به حسین رفیع پور به یکی از این دو تاریخ رای بدهید تا تاریخ دقیق بر اساس رای بیشتر انتخاب شود.

Assignment #6: A perceptual color space was described in the class. Describe other color spaces.

An interesting color game: