NEUR189B PO - Artificial & Biological Vision

When Offered: Each spring.
Instructor(s): Y. Zhu
Credit: 1

In this course, students will explore the relationship between neurobiology and artificial intelligence by focusing on vision. We will read and discuss papers on the neuroscience of vision, from the eye to the cortex, and cover various organisms’ visual systems in depth. Alongside, we will learn about historical and contemporary work on artificial vision, such as with deep neural network models, and we will compare these models with biology. This is a hands-on course in which students will build and train neural network models and complete a final research project. Students should have prior experience with a high-level programming language such as Python, MATLAB, Java, C++, Julia, etc. Assignments in this class will be completed in Python.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 4