Lecture 1: Introduction to Biological Vision - Vision Research ...

Eyeball & muscles• Form & function:– Get the interesting part of the image placed where acuity isbest (where receptor density highest)-- the fovea.– 6 of the fastest moving muscles in the body control eyemovements.–Fixations correlated with attention, action plans• Active work to compute salient visual directions fromnatural images by computing “saliency maps”, perhapsformed in V1 (primary visual cortex)Itti and Koch, 2001; Koch and Ullman, 1985; Wolfe, 1994,Zhang, L., Tong, M. H., Marks, T. K., Shan, H., & Cottrell, G.W. (2008); Zhang, X., Zhaoping, L., Zhou, T., & Fang, F.(2012) ...Wednesday, August 29, 12