Organizers: Ali Borji
Krista A. Ehinger
James H. Elder
Odelia Schwartz
Thomas Serre
Description: This tutorial provides a broad overview to the process of human visual perception, with an emphasis on how understanding the human visual system can help to advance computer vision research. This tutorial will cover both physio-logical and psychophysical approaches to understanding hu-man vision and will relate the two fields together to create a consistent and complete understanding of the process of visual perception. For the physiological approach, the course will discuss the areas of lower-level visual processing in the recep-tors of the eye and the lateral geniculate nucleus and higher-level visual processing in different areas of the brain. In the psychophysical approach, the course will introduce the differ-ent psychophysical models of human vision, including the models of perceptual organization, perceptual segregation, and construction. Concepts of color, depth, movement and their visual perception will be introduced. To relate the materi-als presented in the context of different areas of computer science, examples of the quantification and use of these phys-iological and psychophysical models in computer vision, com-puter graphics, multimedia and HCI will be referenced.
