Emulating the Primate Early Vision System

Tiejun Huang

Peking University, China

Wednesday, August 12, 2015
3:30 p.m., ICSI Lecture Hall

The early vision system (retina, LGN, and primary visual system) of human/primate is high efficient on representing visual information. This talk will introduce a just granted project, in which a computer science team works on emulation/simulation and a neuroscience team on parsing retina and V1.

Contributions on video coding, surveillance video analysis, and mobile visual search from the speaker’s lab will be introduced briefly as well.

Bio:

Tiejun Huang is a Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, the Chair of Department of Computer Science and the Director of the Institute for Digital Media Technology, Peking University. Professor Huang’s research areas include video coding and image understanding. He received the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the Huazhong (Central China) University of Science and Technology in 1998, and the master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from the Wuhan University of Technology in 1995 and 1992, respectively. Professor Huang received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2014. He is a member of the Board of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Board of Directors for Digital Media Project and the Advisory Board of IEEE Computing Now.