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Efficient coding provides a direct link between prior and likelihood in perceptual Bayesian inferenceXue-Xin Wei and Alan A Stocker
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, Lake Tahoe CA, December 2012, MIT Press. p. 1313-1321
abstract | pdf | www- Optimal neural tuning curves for arbitrary stimulus distributions: Discrimax, infomax and minimum Lp loss
Zhuo Wang and Alan A Stocker and Dan D Lee
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, Lake Tahoe CA, December 2012, MIT Press. p. 2177–2185
abstract | pdf | www - Bayesian inference with efficient neural population codes
Xue-Xin Wei and Alan A Stocker
ICANN Int. Conference on Artifical Neural Networks, Sept 2012. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7552, p. 523-530
abstract | pdf | www Optimal inference explains the perceptual coherence of visual motion stimuli
James H Hedges and Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
Journal of Vision, 11(6):14, May 2011, p. 1-16
abstract | pdf | wwwAmbiguity and invariance: two fundamental challenges for visual processing
Nicole C Rust and Alan A Stocker
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 20:3, June 2010, p. 382-388
abstract | pdfVisual motion aftereffects arise from a cascade of two isomorphic adaptation mechanisms
Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
Journal of Vision, 9(9):9, August 2009, p. 1-14
abstract | pdf | supplementary material | wwwIs the homunculus 'aware' of sensory adaptation?
Peggy Series, Alan A Stocker, and Eero P Simoncelli
Neural Computation, vol. 21, December 2009, p. 3271-3304
abstract | pdfA Bayesian Model of Conditioned Perception
Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, Vancouver Canada, May 2008, MIT Press, p. 1409-1416
abstract | pdf | news comment (in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2009, 71 (2))Visual adaptation: neural, psychological and computational aspects
Clifford CWG, and Webster MA, and Stanley GB, and Stocker AA, and Kohn A, and Sharpee TO, and Schwartz O
Vision Research, vol.47(25), November 2007, p. 3125-3131
abstract | pdfNoise characteristics and prior expectations in human visual speed perception
Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
Nature Neuroscience. vol.9, no.4, April 2006, p. 578-585
abstract | pdf | cover | supplementary material | news and views | scienceNow | f1000 evaluationAnalog Integrated 2D Optical Flow Sensor
Alan A Stocker
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer; vol. 46, no. 2, January 2006, p. 121-138
abstract | pdfSensory Adaptation within a Bayesian Framework for Perception
Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, Vancouver Canada, May 2006, MIT Press, p. 1291-1298
abstract | pdfConstraining a Bayesian Model of Human Visual Speed Perception
Alan A Stocker and Eero P Simoncelli
NIPS Neural Information Processing Systems 17, Vancouver Canada, May 2005, MIT Press, p.1361-1368
abstract | pdfAnalog VLSI focal-plane array with dynamic connections for the estimation of piecewise-smooth optical flow
Alan A Stocker
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-1; vol. 51, no. 5, May 2004, p. 963-973
abstract | pdfAnalog Integrated 2-D Optical Flow Sensor with Programmable Pixels
Alan A Stocker and Rodney J Douglas
ISCAS2004, Vancouver Canada, 23.-26. May 2004, vol. 3, p. 9-12
abstract | pdfCompact Integrated Transconductance Amplifier Circuit for Temporal Differentiation
Alan A Stocker
ISCAS2003, Bangkok Thailand, 25.-28. May 2003,vol.1, p. 201-203
abstract | pdfClassifying Patterns of Visual Motion - a Neuromorphic Approach
Jakob Heinzle and Alan A Stocker
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, Vancouver Canada, May 2003, MIT Press, p. 1123-1130
abstract | pdf | video (mpeg 3m)Silicon Retina Sensing guided by Omni-direction Vision
Becanovic V, and Indiveri G, and Kobialka H-U, and Ploger P, and Stocker AA
Mechatronics and Machine Vision 2002: Current Practice; p.13-21, ISBN:0-86380-278-8
abstract | pdfAn Improved 2D Optical Flow Sensor for Motion Segmentation
Alan A Stocker
ISCAS2002, Phoenix USA, 26.-29. May 2002, vol.2, p. 332-335, invited paper
abstract | pdfComputation of Smooth Optical Flow in a Feedback Connected Analog Network
Alan A Stocker and Rodney J Douglas
NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, Denver, May 1999, MIT Press, p. 706-712
abstract | pdfStability Study of Some Neural Networks Applied to Tissue Characterization of Brain Magnetic Resonance Images
Alan A Stocker, O Sipila, A Visa, O Salonen and T Katila
ICPR Proc. 13th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996, p. 472-477
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book
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Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion
Alan A Stocker
Wiley & Sons
monograph
ISBN: 0-470-85491-X, hardcover, 240 pages
March 2006
online | reviews
phD thesis
Constraint Optimization Networks for Visual Motion Perception - Analysis and Synthesis
Alan A Stocker
PhD thesis no. 14360 ETH Zurich, March 2002.
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