Abstract: What is perception? The most intuitive and influential answer to this question has long been the one given by David Marr: To see the world is “to know what is where by looking” - to transform light into representations of objects and their features, located somewhere ins pace. But is this all that perception
Abstract: The brain performs critical calculations on visual information as we swiftly, yet effortlessly, navigate around objects and obstacles in our cluttered environment. Perhaps one of the most important calculations is for the perception of depth using the apparent relative motion of objects in the environment created by our own translation known as motion parallax.
Abstract: The world is modular. So – intuitively – it seems clear that cognitive systems that deal with the world should benefit from a modular architecture. Simple or less important problems should use less cognitive resources than complex or important problems, which – intuitively – may be achieved by changing the degree of modularity that
The talks will be held by Arinze Lawrence Folarin, "My 175 days journey in Berlin"; Juliana T.C. Marcos "GSEP Internship: More than a research experience in neuromorphic vision at SCIoI"; and Kiprono Elijah Koech "Action Recognition in a Wildlife Setting - Taken a Leap". The Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.