1095 Object Recognition
Friday 9-10

Adrian Schwaninger

Description
How do we recognize that something is a table? How can we recognize a face as "Marilyn Monroe"? The recognition of objects and faces under a variety of perceptual conditions is an important and complex ability of the brain. The main aim of this lecture is to present and contrast different approaches from experimental psychology, computational vision and cognitive neuroscience.

Materials
The slides of this lecture can be downloaded as one file or separately for each session (see table below).
The files are in the .pdf format and can be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download a free version of Acrobat Reader click here.

To download one file containing ALL slides choose between these two options:
OR99_72.pdf Resolution 72 dpi, file size 6.5 MB
OR99_144.pdf Resolution 144 dpi, file size 10.5 MB

Schedule and slides

No. Date Topic Slides

1

22.10.99

Introduction, Overview

OR99_01.pdf
2
29.10.99
The Traditional Approach OR99_02.pdf
3
5.11.99

Structural Descriptions I

OR99_03.pdf
4
12.11.99
Structural Descriptions II OR99_04.pdf
5
19.11.99
Discussion I OR99_05.pdf
6
26.11.99
View Based Approaches OR99_06.pdf
7
3.12.99
Discussion II OR99_07.pdf
8
10.12.99
Low Level Vision OR99_08.pdf
9
17.12.99
High Level Vision (Ventral Stream) OR99_09.pdf
10
14.1.00
Kosslyn's Model I OR99_10.pdf
11
21.1.00
Kosslyn's Model II OR99_11.pdf
12
28.1.00
Face Recognition I OR99_12.pdf
13
4.2.00
Face Recognition II OR99_13.pdf

Books
Please have a look at the books in Adrian Schwaninger's "Handapparat" in the Library of the Department of Psychology (Zurichbergstr. 4, 8032 Zurich).

References
A list of references used for the slides of this lecture is available here.