International Symposium "Vision by Brains and Machines"
November 13th - 17th
Montevideo, Uruguay
International Symposium "Vision by Brains and Machines"
November 13th - 17th
Montevideo, Uruguay
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The aim of this Internationational Symposium is to provide a high quality exchange of ideas between scientists and students of both neurobiology and engineering in order to strengthen the existing research in both fields.
The main goal is to discuss what a brain (including the retina) or a machine can make with seven dimensional patterns of light (four receptor types plus two spatial dimensions and time). In this context vision is defined as what happens in the loop between the eye (or artificial light pattern sensor) and a controlled plant (or animal body) or a perceptual space (or decision space). Vision here is seen as the process of analyzing the sensed reality in order to behave in some way.
There are common problems posed when brains and imaging machines have to find coherent descriptions of the external world for controlling their behavior. However, the limited computational resources of any physical device and the restrictions imposed by timing and task requirements cause that descriptions of the world must be partial and shaped by the representation systems intrinsic to the device.
Therefore, for deciphering the general problems posed when a physical device has to find a useful description of the external world, it is required to understand and compare the organizations, functions and dynamics of actual devices. This task involves the integration of different disciplines including comparative neurobiology, computational neuroscience, psychology, neuro- philosophy, information theory, control theory and computer vision. This kind of integration is essential for the development of neuroscience and engineering: understanding brains paves the way to create "intelligent" machines, and creating "intelligent" machines can help understanding brains.
Promoting a field of intersection between neuroscience and engineering requires bringing together research groups probing nature with different techniques and describing their conclusions with different scientific languages.
