[CvGmt News] "School on Neuromathematics of Vision"

[Centro De Giorgi]

CENTRO DI RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI

Dal 4 al 9 Settembre prossimi il Centro De Giorgi organizza una scuola 
dal titolo "School on Neuromathematics of Vision".

Del Comitato Organizzatore fanno parte:
Giovanna Citti (Università di Bologna)
Jean-Michel Morel (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)
Jean Petitot (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique)
Alessandro Sarti (Università di Bologna)
James A. Sethian (University of California, Berkeley)
Giuseppe Tomassini (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Steven W. Zucker (Yale University)

Le lezioni si terranno in Aula Dini (Via del Castelletto, 11).

Qui di seguito si riporta il calendario delle lezioni. Per eventuali 
aggiornamenti o modifiche si rimanda al sito del Centro De Giorgi, 
http://www.crm.sns.it, alla sezione "schools".

Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.

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Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
School on Neuromathematics of Vision
September 4 - 9, 2006

Monday, September 4, 2006
14:00 - 14:30 Introduction

14:30 - 15:30 Yves Frégnac, Read-out of visual perception from synaptic 
rumours
16:00 - 17:00 Jean Lorenceau, Fast visual motion and cortical dynamics


Tuesday, September 5, 2006
09:30 - 10:30 Claudio Galletti, The visual area V6 in the macaque and 
human brains
11:00 - 12:00 Lamberto Maffei, TBA

14:30 - 15:30 Jean Petitot, Contact structures and coherent states in 
neurogeometry
16:00 - 17:00 Steven W. Zucker, Color, Connections, and Stereo: from 
Frenet to Cartan


Wednesday, September 6, 2006
09:30 - 10:30 Paul Bressloff, The Role of Feedback in Shaping The 
Extra-Classical Receptive Field of Cortical Neurons: A Recurrent Network 
Model
11:00 - 12:00  Alessandra Angelucci, TBA

14:30 - 15:30 Jack Cowan, Statistical Mechanics of the Neocortex
16.00 - 17:00 Hans Martin Reimann, Uncertainty in hearing


Thursday, September 7, 2006
09:30 - 10:30 Pekka Koskela, Metric definition of quasiconformality
11:00 - 12:00 Walter Schempp, Mathematical Methods of Brain Sciences

14:00 - 15:00 Scott Pauls, Geometric Mathematical Models of the primary 
visual cortex
15:30 - 16:30 Francesco Serra Cassano, The Bernstein problem for 
intrinsic graphs in the Heisenberg group
17:00 - 18:00 Sergey Vodopyanov, Differentiability of Mappings of Carnot 
Manifolds


Friday, September 8, 2006
09:30 - 10:30 Jean-Michel Morel, A review of computational gestalt
11:00 - 12:00 Marcelo Bertalmío, Perceptual Color Correction Through 
Variational Techniques

14:00 - 15:00 Andrés Almansa, Low baseline stereo, sampling and a 
contrario models
15.30 - 16.00   Karsten Mueller, Spectral and wavelet analysis in 
functional imaging
16.15 - 16.45   Silvia Zuffi, Modelling Color Perception
17.00 - 17.30   Giovanni Sebastiani, Functional minimization for 
quantifying human brain connectivity from DT-MRI
Saturday, September 9, 2006
Short communications
9.00    Camilo Melani Tracking of biological cells from confocal images
9.30    Gonzalo Sanguinetti A geometrical model for the functional 
arquitecture of the primary visual cortex
10.00   Barbara Rizzi 3D images of zebrafish embryo: PDEs based 
filtering and segmantation
10.30   Jérémie Jakubowicz Multisegment Detection
11.00   Rafael Grompone Meaningful k-gons
11.30   Juan Cardelino Region based segmentation using the tree of shapes
12.00   Enric Meinhardt Edge Detection in 3D
12.30   Gabriele Facciolo Constrained Diffusion and Some Applications: 
Low Baseline Stereo and Video Segmentation
13.00   Rodrigo Verschae Face Detection using boosted nested cascades




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Ilaria Gabbani
Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
Collegio Puteano, Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 3
I-56100 PISA

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