Overview: This journal club focuses on information processing in biological sensory systems with applications to machine perception. Papers are chosen from the neurophysiology, psychophysics, computational modeling and artificial intelligence literature.

Organizers: Ching-Yi Wu, Christopher DiMattina and Michael Lewicki in EECS.

Place: Olin 504

Spring 2011

Feb 4th (Wooyoung): Ouyang, H., & Gray, A. (2008). Learning dissimilarities by ranking: From SDP to QP. Proc. 25th. International Conference on Machine Learning: 728-735.

Mar 10th (Ching-Yi): McDermott, J.H. (2009). The cocktail party problem. Current Biology 19: 1024-1027.
McDermott, J.H. (2011). Recovering sounds sources from embedded repetition. PNAS 108: 1188-1193.
Darwin, C.J. (2008). Listening to speech in the presence of other sounds. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 363: 1011-1021.
Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. et al. (2007). A sound element gets lost in perceptual competition. PNAS 104: 12223-12227.

May 19th (Wooyoung): Global scene representation using Independent Components Analysis. Research talk.

Jun 30th (Chris): Optimizing optimization: How to train statistical models of natural stimuli. Research tutorial.

Fall 2011

Sep 21st (Wooyoung): Le, Q. et al. (2011). On optimization methods for deep learning. ICML 2011.

Dec 2nd (Ching-Yi): Ekanadham, C. et al. (2011a). A blind deconvolution method for neural spike identification. NIPS 2011.
Ekanadham, C. et al. (2011b). Recovery of sparse translation-invariant signals with continuous basis pursuit. IEEE Trans. Signal Proc. 59: 4735-4744.

Dec 14th (Chris): Practice Job Talk. Computational Perception: Information processing in biological sensory systems.