CSc 82200 Seminar (CRN
22444)
Vision, Brain and Assistive
Technologies
Fall 2013
Professor
Zhigang Zhu
Department of Computer Science
The City College of
New York and Graduate
Center
The City University of New York (CUNY)
Class Meet: Monday 9:30 am - 11:30 am,
Rm 3307, CUNY Graduate Center
Office Hours: Mondays 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Wednesdays 2:00 pm - 3:00
pm, NAC 8/211, CUNY City College
Course Update
Information
- September 09, 2013, First class meet. Introduction
(slides).
Please submit a short CV and your reading selections for the
first presentation.
- September 16, 2013. Vision and Brain (I) Eyes
(II) Visual
Brain.
- September 23, 2013. Vision and Brain (III) Depth.
- September 30, 2013. Student Presentations (I): Group 1
(Wai on VE for the Blind; Feng on Mobile Vision; Bing on RGB-D
and Navigation).
- September 30, 2013. We will have an
invited talk by Dr. Chieko Asakawa and Dr. Hiro Takagi
(Senior Technical Staff Members, Accessibility Research, IBM
Research - Tokyo), at 12:30 pm in NAC 7/225 at CCNY
(TBA)
- October 07, 2013. Student Presentations (I): Group 2 (Wei
on Depth Imaging and Mutisensor Fusion in 3D; Arun on
Assistive Tech; Greg on Indoor Visual Modeling)
- October 14, 2013. Student Presentations (I) Group 3
(Farnaz on Multimodal Deep Learning; Martin on 3D-Based
Reasoning; Nisa on Accessibility?)
- October 21, 2013. We will have an invited talk on ELIA
Alphabet and ELIA Life Technology by Mr. Andrew
Chepaitis12:30 pm in NAC 7/225 at CCNY
- October
21, 2013. Student presentation (II) Group 1
- October 28, 2013.
Student presentation (II) Group 2
- November 4, 2013.
Student presentation (II) Group 3
- Nov 11, 2013.
Zhu presents Vision and Brain (IV)
Color, and Student Proposals (I): Wai on dual
display, Arun and Feng on Mobile & Cloud Vision.
- Nov 18, 2013.
Students Proposals (II): Bing - RGB-D navigation; Wei - 3D
touch; Greg - iPhone vision; Farnaz - Deep learning for
vision; Martin - 3D face. Then
we will have our one-hour quiz in class on Vision and
Brian.
- Nov 21, 2013, Grading
for the quiz and presentations.
- Nov 25, 2013.
Project implementations. No class
meet. Please work on your demos and slides.
- Dec 2 and Dec
9, 2013. Students will present their course projects, and
show demos. Each student will have 30 minutes.
- Location CCNY
NAC 8/207. Time 10:00 am - 12:00 am
- Dec 2: Wai, Bing, Feng/Arun
- Dec 9: Wei, Greg, Martin, Farnaz
- Dec 15, 2013,
Deadline for your final project reports - a technical
reports - please use the format of a technical paper,
including the following sections: problem
statement, background and related work, goals and
objectives, your approach/designs/algorithms,
implementation details, results and challenges,
conclusions and discussions. Finally a list of
references.
- Dec 21, 2013, Final
Grading. Happy Holidays!
Course Description
The seminar will discuss
modern vision science and explore how the brain sees the world,
thus including introductory on computational neuroscience,
motion, color and several other topics. Then we will discuss the
needs and state-of-art in sensing, processing and stimulation
for assisting visually challenged people (blind and visually
impaired people) using advanced technologies in machine vision,
robotics, displays, materials, portable devices and
infrastructure.
Course Objectives
Through the course, the students should be able to:
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of human brain and vision, and
visual impairment
- Identify need of visually impaired people and related
assistive technologies
- Apply machine vision algorithms/techniques and assistive
technologies to assisting visually impaired
Course Organization
The instructor intends to
offer the course as an interdisciplinary seminar course, in
which a few lectures will be provided from the recommended textbook and
then students from mathematics, physics, electrical engineering,
computer science and psychology and other social sciences will
be assigned to read, present and discuss materials in vision,
brain, computing and devices for assisting the visually
impaired. The major reading materials will include the papers
and talks from the references below. Finally students will team
up to do course projects. Rough grading policy: an
in-class exam of the basics (20%), student reading reports and
presentations (40%), and project reports and presentations
(40%).
Readings and References
Recommended Textbook on Human Vision and Brain:
- Vision
and Brain - How We Perceive the World, By James V.
Stone, The MIT Press. Paperback | $30.00 Short | £20.95 | ISBN:
9780262517737 | 264 pp. | 6 x 9 in | 25 color illus., 132
b&w illus.| September 2012 (For students with
little experience in vision and neuroscience to know
human vision, brain and computational neuroscience)
Other References on
Vision for the Blind (to be updated):
Copyright @ Zhigang
Zhu ( zhu at cs.ccny.cuny.edu ), Fall 2013