The courses

The symposium will be preceeded by three introductory courses of ten hours along the previous week (November 6th to 10th), one directed to students with engineering background (Course 1) and one directed to students with biology background (Course 2) and a third one, more general treating on Color (Course 3). These courses will involve three hours in the morning and three to four in the afternoon, and will be coordinated by the organizers. If funding is successful, some of the symposium invited speakers will teach in the courses.

The courses will be independently validated as postgraduate courses in Biology and Electrical Enginnering in Uruguay, and will be evaluated by presenting a monographyc work on one of the topics of the course before the 31st of December, 2006. International students will be evaluated likewise. Formal certificates will be provided.

The courses will be at the IIBCE - Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable
Address: Av. Italia 3318, Montevideo, Uruguay, CP 11600

Please fill the courses registration form if you want to attend to this courses.

Preliminar subjects and contents of each course

Course 1: Brain based vision

This course will include a comparative introduction of vision in biology and address the following topics on vertebrate vision:

Program

November 6th, Monday

9:00 AM - What does it means to see?. - Caputi
10:00 AM - Processing the image structure. - Caputi

November 7th, Tuesday

9:00 AM - The mechanisms of imaging and its problems. - Budelli.
10:00 AM - The retina of vertebrates. - Aguilera

November 8th, Wednesday

9:00 AM - The cerbral cortex of mammals and the main streams of visual ptrocessing. - Caputi
10:00 AM - The occipito temporal stream and object characterization. - Caputi

November 9th, Thursday

9:00 AM - The dorsal stream, object localization and perception of movement. - Gomez
10:00 AM - Vision as a reafferent system the role of ocular movements. - Caputi

November 10th, Friday

9:00 AM - Contributions of invertebrates for understanding of vision. - Trujillo
10:00 AM - Contributions of other sensory systems to understanding vision. Bell

This course is coordinated by A. Caputi.

Course 2: Introduction to computer vision

Program in PDF

This is an introductory course on computer vision aimed for neurobiology students. The general architecture of a computer vision system will be discussed as well as some of its common blocks: acquisition, segmentation, stereoscopy.

Material

• introduccion.zip
• segmentacion.zip
• formaysegmentacion.zip

This course is coordinated by G. Randall.

Course 3: Color, from computation to perception and back to computation

This course is teached by Alessandro Rizzi.

Color information management and its computational background in digital imaging always have as "end user" a human observer. For this reason, since from the beginning, classic colorimetry has taken into account this final stage of human perception.

This short course, in the first part, wants to present the classic colorimetry and how its evolution has lead to considering perception more and more (from computation to perception).

In the second part some computational models of color perception will be presented (back to computation), underlining their common points and contrasts with classic colorimetry.

Draft program:

1. color in digital imaging
2. basic colorimetry
3. characteristics of human vision system
4. color in context
5. models of color perception

Schedule for the courses

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International Symposium and Courses "Vision by Brains and Machines" (VBM)
November 13th to 17th, 2006
Montevideo, Uruguay