Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

Despite a plethora of scientific literature devoted to vision research and the trend toward integrative research, the borders between disciplines remain a practical difficulty. To address this problem, this book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of vision from various perspectives, ranging from neuroscience to cognition, and from computational principles to engineering developments. It is written by leading international researchers in the field, with an emphasis on linking multiple disciplines and the impact such synergy can lead to in terms of both scientific breakthroughs and technology innovations. It is aimed at active researchers and interested scientists and engineers in related fields.

Dr. Qi Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by Postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. Her current research program aims to integrate theories and tools from visual cognition, computer vision, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and computer graphics to develop neuroscience inspired arti?cial visual systems, and reciprocally, to use these approaches to inspire interesting experimental design for psychophysical and neurophysiological study of the biological visual system, and gain insights into visual and cognitive disorders.