BCS 524. Advanced Problems in Perception and Action

Assoc. Professor Knill

Prerequisites: ANA/NSC 531, or NSC 201/BCS 240, permission of instructor.

An advanced graduate course focusing on in-depth studies of several problems in perception and action. In the first half of the course we will cover four problems in higher-level visual function in some detail -- depth perception, object recognition, visual information processing in natural tasks and the visual control of action. In the second half of the course, students will each develop a research proposal in one of these four areas. The first half of the course will be taught in seminar format, with introductory lectures introducing each of the four problem areas. The second half of the course will be run as a grant-writing workshop in which students develop the major components of a research proposal (problem specification, background review and research plan) through collaborative interactions in the class.