February 10, 2015 - 4:00 pm
Ed Boyden, CBMM Thrust 2: Circuits for Intelligence
*Talk was rescheduled to March 10th*
Topic: Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: What is there? What’s happening now? And why?
Abstract:
Ideally we would have maps of the molecular and anatomical circuitry of the brain, as well as of the dynamic activity of the brain, with sufficient detail to...
Topic: Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: What is there? What’s happening now? And why?
Abstract:
Ideally we would have maps of the molecular and anatomical circuitry of the brain, as well as of the dynamic activity of the brain, with sufficient detail to...
December 9, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Bill Lotter
Circuits for Intelligence – CBMM Thrust 2
Time permitting, Gabriel Kreiman will talk about “Spatiotemporal integration in visual recognition”
Time permitting, Gabriel Kreiman will talk about “Spatiotemporal integration in visual recognition”
November 18, 2014 - 9:00 pm
Goren Gordon
Personal Robots Group
Media Lab, MIT
Curiosity is one of the major human drives. Can we model curiosity in biological agents? Can we implement these models in artificial systems? What happens when a curious child meets a curious robot? In this talk I present recent work on the study of curiosity. First, studies of curiosity-driven...
November 4, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Andrew Saxe
Abstract:
Humans and other organisms show an incredibly sophisticated ability to learn about their environments during their lifetimes. This learning is thought to alter the strength of connections between neurons in the brain, but we still do not understand the principles linking synaptic changes...
Humans and other organisms show an incredibly sophisticated ability to learn about their environments during their lifetimes. This learning is thought to alter the strength of connections between neurons in the brain, but we still do not understand the principles linking synaptic changes...
October 21, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Dr. Dan Yamins
Abstract:
The ventral visual stream underlies key human visual object recognition abilities. However, neural encoding in the higher areas of the ventral stream remains poorly understood. Here, we describe a modeling approach that yields a quantitatively accurate model of inferior temporal (IT)...
The ventral visual stream underlies key human visual object recognition abilities. However, neural encoding in the higher areas of the ventral stream remains poorly understood. Here, we describe a modeling approach that yields a quantitatively accurate model of inferior temporal (IT)...
October 14, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Ilker Yildirim and Tejas Kulkarni
Research Thrust: Development of Intelligence, CBMM Thrust 1
Abstract:
In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the field of Computational Vision due to powerful feed-forward architectures that build classifiers for individual scene elements and learn features automatically from data....
Abstract:
In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the field of Computational Vision due to powerful feed-forward architectures that build classifiers for individual scene elements and learn features automatically from data....
October 7, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Dr. Carlo Ciliberto, LCSL MIT
CBMM Thrust 5 – Theories for Intelligence
For more information regarding the iCub, please visit http://www.icub.org/
For more information regarding the iCub, please visit http://www.icub.org/
September 16, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Shimon Ullman
Abstract:
The human visual system makes highly effective use of limited information: it can recognize not only objects, but severely reduced sub-configurations in terms of size or resolution. Minimal images are useful for the interpretation of complex scenes but they are also challenging because by...
The human visual system makes highly effective use of limited information: it can recognize not only objects, but severely reduced sub-configurations in terms of size or resolution. Minimal images are useful for the interpretation of complex scenes but they are also challenging because by...
September 9, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Meeting Notes:
Admin
● New (?) members
● 25 postdocs (affiliated or participating)
○ announce in labs/PIs
● Mailing List
● Separate grad student list (use both lists for postdoc meetings)
● Meetings: 1 meeting every 3 weeks (MIT or Harvard)
Topics
● Organization for this year (Content)
● Role of...
Admin
● New (?) members
● 25 postdocs (affiliated or participating)
○ announce in labs/PIs
● Mailing List
● Separate grad student list (use both lists for postdoc meetings)
● Meetings: 1 meeting every 3 weeks (MIT or Harvard)
Topics
● Organization for this year (Content)
● Role of...
May 23, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Bevil Conway, Wellesley
Topic: Progress on CBMM Challenge
Abstract:
To assess the organization of IT, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in alert monkeys to achromatic images (faces, fruit, bodies and places) and colored gratings. IT contained multiple color-biased regions, which were...
Abstract:
To assess the organization of IT, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in alert monkeys to achromatic images (faces, fruit, bodies and places) and colored gratings. IT contained multiple color-biased regions, which were...
May 16, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Alan L. Yuille, Professor & Investigator, UCLA
Topic: Progress on CBMM Challenge
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 5 is focused on models for the CBMM challenge that can answer CBMM challenge questions while being...
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 5 is focused on models for the CBMM challenge that can answer CBMM challenge questions while being...
May 9, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Ben Deen
Collaborator: Nancy Kanwisher, Rebecca Saxe; CBMM Thrust 4 – Social Intelligence
Progress of CBMM Challenge – Social Intelligence
Abstract:
The central aim of Thrust 4 is to understand nonverbal social perception, or the ability to make high-level social inferences from perceptual information, in...
Progress of CBMM Challenge – Social Intelligence
Abstract:
The central aim of Thrust 4 is to understand nonverbal social perception, or the ability to make high-level social inferences from perceptual information, in...
May 2, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Harvard University: Northwest Bldg, Room 243
Noah Goodman; CBMM Thrust 1 – Development of Intelligence
Progress on the CBMM Challenge Questions: What is there? and Who is there?
Abstract:
Thrust 1 presents this week episode in our series of weekly discussions on progress on the CBMM challenge questions. The thrust is focused on the development of intelligence and on how to model it. It is therefore...
Abstract:
Thrust 1 presents this week episode in our series of weekly discussions on progress on the CBMM challenge questions. The thrust is focused on the development of intelligence and on how to model it. It is therefore...
April 25, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-3189
Robert Desimone; Thrust 2 – Circuits for Intelligence and Thrust 5 – Theories of Intelligence
Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: What/Who is there?
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 2 is focused on the Neural Circuits and on how models for the CBMM...
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 2 is focused on the Neural Circuits and on how models for the CBMM...
April 18, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Winrich Freiwald and Joel Z. Leibo; CBMM Thrust 5 – Theories for Intelligence
Title: On the neural mechanisms of face recognition: from experiments to theory
Abstract:
Object recognition, the ability to identify an object despite vast changes in appearance due to changes in lighting or orientation, is a major accomplishment of the primate brain, as a result of which we can...
Abstract:
Object recognition, the ability to identify an object despite vast changes in appearance due to changes in lighting or orientation, is a major accomplishment of the primate brain, as a result of which we can...