Computational Vision Journal Club
Winter Term 2024/25
Day, time & location:
Mondays from 14:45 till 15:45 (please note we will start at 14:45 – no academic quarter or c.t.)
Location: seminar room on the 1st floor of Maria-von-Linden-Str. 6
To register for the course, please join the course on ILIAS
Students can obtain 3 ECTS for the active participation in the Journal Club (non graded, only pass or fail). The number of participants at the Journal Club is strictly limited to 10, and members of the NIP lab take precedence over external students. Thus in practice there is a limit of 2, 3 or maximally 4 external students per term, depending on the number of current NIP lab members.
| date | article |
| 14.10.2024 | – no journal club – |
| 21.10.2024 | MacKay, D. J. C. (2003). Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 1-46). No need to do the exercises. |
| 28.10.2024 | – no journal club – |
| 04.11.2024 | – no journal club – |
| 11.11.2024 | MacKay, D. J. C. (2003). Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4 & 5 (pp. 65-108). No need to do the exercises. |
| 18.11.2024 | MacKay, D. J. C. (2003). Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 6 & 8 (pp. 110-131 and 138-144). No need to do the exercises. |
| 25.11.2024 | MacKay, D. J. C. (2003). Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 9 & 10 (pp. 146-175). No need to do the exercises. |
| 02.12.2024 | Information theory in neuroscience: Quian Quiroga, R., & Panzeri, S. (2009). Extracting information from neuronal populations: Information theory and decoding approaches. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10(3), 173–185. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2578 and Tlusty, T. (2010). A colorful origin for the genetic code: Information theory, statistical mechanics and the emergence of molecular codes. Physics of Life Reviews, 7(3), 362–376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2010.06.002 |
| 09.12.2024 | Metabolic cost of information processing: Laughlin, S. B. (2001). Energy as a constraint on the coding and processing of sensory information. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11(4), 475–480 and Lennie, P. (2003). The Cost of Cortical Computation. Current Biology, 13(6), 493–497. |
| 16.12.2024 | Symbols, cognition and evolution: Penn, D. C., Holyoak, K. J., & Povinelli, D. J. (2008). Darwin’s mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(2), 109–130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08003543 |
| 23.12.2024 | – no journal club – (Weihnachtsferien / Christmas holiday) |
| 30.12.2024 | – no journal club – (Weihnachtsferien / Christmas holiday) |
| 06.01.2025 | – no journal club – |
| 13.01.2025 | Information processing without symbol manipulations; information as knowing about something: Barlow, H. (2001). Redundancy reduction revisited. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 12(3), 241–253. |
| 20.01.2025 | Information theory and representation of the world in the mind: Fodor, J. A. (1985). Fodor’s Guide to Mental Representation: The Intelligent Auntie’s Vade-Mecum. Mind, XCIV(373), 76–100. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIV.373.76 |
| 27.01.2025 | Information theory without symbols: Thompson, E., & Varela, F. J. (2001). Radical embodiment: Neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(10), 418–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01750-2 |
| 03.02.2025 | – no journal club – |