304-629B - Visual-Motor Systems
304-629B - Visual-Motor Systems
Course Description:
Examination of the link between vision and action in artificial and natural
systems. Active vision, spatial attention, perception and representation of
space, gaze stabilization and tracking, scanning and saccadic eye
movements, visual servoing. Design and control of robotic visual-motor
systems. Neurobiology of visual-motor systems.
Detailed Course Contents:
- 1. Active Vision
- ecological optics.
- regularization of ill-posed inverse problems.
- applications of regularization in computer vision.
- active vision.
- 2. Visual Attention
- what is attention?
- neural substrates for attention.
- attention and eye movements, the Pre-motor theory.
- the Superior Colliculus and saccade generation.
- 3. Visual-Motor Systems
- representation of space in visual and motor cortices.
- neural network models of the parietal cortex.
- perceptual stability.
- sensorimotor contingency theory.
- 4. Gaze Stabilization, Tracking and Pursuit
- vestibulo-ocular and opto-kinetic reflexes.
- control of pursuit.
- Kalman filter based tracking techniques.
- visual servoing.
Evaluation:
There will be three written assignments. Students will also write a
literature review paper half-way through the course. There will be a
research project with a written report at the end of term. There will
be a one hour in class exam at the end of term.
- Assignments 30%
- Literature Review 20%
- Course Project 30%
- Final Exam 20%
Reading List:
The reading list will consist of journal and conference papers, and book
chapters.
Prerequisite:
304-529 (Image Processing and Communication) or
equivalent introductory course in image processing or visual perception.
The course has a web page:
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/629.html
Instructor:
Dr. James J. Clark
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
and Center for Intelligent Machines (CIM),
Room 422 McConnell Engineering Building
EMAIL: clark@cim.mcgill.ca