Perception and Visual Cognition

Dr. Agostino Gibaldi of the Banks Lab is interested in extending models of sensory processing and oculo-motor behavior from laboratory settings to complex stimuli that more closely resemble real world conditions.

Congrats New Doctors!

The class of 2019 set records for the most-ever PhDs (15) graduated in a single year, four of whom have also earned an OD degree. Bravo to all!

Focusing Response

Post-doctoral researchers Vivek Labhishetty and Steve Cholewiak are studying optical and image-based depth cues in current and emerging display technologies. Their research could lead to more comfortable and immersive head mounted display (HMD) technologies and has implications on myopia (nearsightedness) development.

Affinity Spots

PhD student Dylan Paiton produced this plot for a recent paper submission. The model is a two-layer neural network trained on videos of natural scenes. Each pair of plots corresponds to a layer 2 neuron. The square plot is the spatial "receptive field" of the layer 2 neuron, the circular plot is the time-frequency "receptive field" of the layer 2 neuron. At the start of the model, each layer 2 neuron is connected randomly to all of the layer 1 neurons. Over time, after looking at millions of video segments, it learns a unique and interesting connectivity pattern to specific layer 1 neurons.

Adaptive Optics

Swati Bhargava from the Roorda lab. The question that motivates the research in the Roorda lab is, "how do humans convert the two-dimensional images that land on the retina into such a rich perceptual experience?"

Neural Activity In The Retina

Light that enters the eye activates rod and cone photoreceptors, which in turn activate retinal ganglion cells.

Team Gronert

The Gronert lab takes safety seriously. They are also interested in intrinsic protective circuits in ocular inflammatory, immune and wound healing responses.

Perception and Visual Cognition

Dr. Agostino Gibaldi of the Banks Lab is interested in extending models of sensory processing and oculo-motor behavior from laboratory settings to complex stimuli that more closely resemble real world conditions.

Congrats New Doctors!

The class of 2019 set records for the most-ever PhDs (15) graduated in a single year, four of whom have also earned an OD degree. Bravo to all!

Focusing Response

Post-doctoral researchers Vivek Labhishetty and Steve Cholewiak are studying optical and image-based depth cues in current and emerging display technologies. Their research could lead to more comfortable and immersive head mounted display (HMD) technologies and has implications on myopia (nearsightedness) development.

Affinity Spots

PhD student Dylan Paiton produced this plot for a recent paper submission. The model is a two-layer neural network trained on videos of natural scenes. Each pair of plots corresponds to a layer 2 neuron. The square plot is the spatial "receptive field" of the layer 2 neuron, the circular plot is the time-frequency "receptive field" of the layer 2 neuron. At the start of the model, each layer 2 neuron is connected randomly to all of the layer 1 neurons. Over time, after looking at millions of video segments, it learns a unique and interesting connectivity pattern to specific layer 1 neurons.

Adaptive Optics

Swati Bhargava from the Roorda lab. The question that motivates the research in the Roorda lab is, "how do humans convert the two-dimensional images that land on the retina into such a rich perceptual experience?"

Neural Activity In The Retina

Light that enters the eye activates rod and cone photoreceptors, which in turn activate retinal ganglion cells.

Team Gronert

The Gronert lab takes safety seriously. They are also interested in intrinsic protective circuits in ocular inflammatory, immune and wound healing responses.

Perception and Visual Cognition

Dr. Agostino Gibaldi of the Banks Lab is interested in extending models of sensory processing and oculo-motor behavior from laboratory settings to complex stimuli that more closely resemble real world conditions.

Perception and Visual Cognition

Congrats New Doctors!

Focusing Response

Affinity Spots

Adaptive Optics

Neural Activity In The Retina

Team Gronert

Perception and Visual Cognition

Congrats New Doctors!

Focusing Response

Affinity Spots

Adaptive Optics

Neural Activity In The Retina

Team Gronert

Perception and Visual Cognition

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