Bruno Olshausen "VSS 2015 Keynote: Vision in Brains and Machines"
Vision Sciences Society Keynote Lecture 2015: Vision in Brains and Machines
The past twenty years have seen important advances in both our understanding of visual representation in brains and in the development of algorithms that enable machines to 'see.' What is perhaps most remarkable about these advances is how they emerged from the confluence of ideas from different disciplines: Findings from signal analysis and statistics shed new light on the possible coding principles underlying image representations in visual cortex, and cortical models in turn inspired the development of multilayer neural network architectures which are now achieving breakthrough performance at object recognition tasks (deep learning). Here I shall review these developments, and I shall discuss what further insights stand to be gained from this cross-fertilization of ideas.
The past twenty years have seen important advances in both our understanding of visual representation in brains and in the development of algorithms that enable machines to 'see.' What is perhaps most remarkable about these advances is how they emerged from the confluence of ideas from different disciplines: Findings from signal analysis and statistics shed new light on the possible coding principles underlying image representations in visual cortex, and cortical models in turn inspired the development of multilayer neural network architectures which are now achieving breakthrough performance at object recognition tasks (deep learning). Here I shall review these developments, and I shall discuss what further insights stand to be gained from this cross-fertilization of ideas.