Week of	Topic	Reading
4/2	Fundamentals.   Optics, rods and cones, sampling and aliasing, resolution vs. eccentricity. (BAO/JSW)	Chapters 1 and 2
4/9	Color: early-stage processing.  Trichromacy, L/M/S cone mosaics, Scotopic/photopic systems, Psychopysics, Color deficiencies.  (JSW)	Chapters 3 and 4
4/16	Color:  late-stage processing. Color constancy,  Perceptual organization - unique hues/opponency, Cortical mechanisms.  (JSW)	Chapter 9
4/23	Brightness and contrast. Psychophysical measures, Physiological response properties, Contrast sensitivity function.  (JSW)	Chapter 5
4/30	-- No class --
5/7	Retinal ganglion cells.  Receptive field models, Spatiotemporal response - space/time separability,  Theories: edge-detection, DOG filters, whitening.  (BAO)	Chapter 5
5/14	Visual cortex. Architecture of V1, Cortical magnification,  log-polar coordinates, Orientation selectivity, feature maps, Theories: Gabor filters, sparse coding.  (JSW/Usrey)	Chapter 6
5/21	Multiresolution representation. Spatial frequency, Image pyramids and wavelets,  Multiscale representation in V1.  (BAO)	Chapters 7 and 8
5/28	Motion and depth. Computation of motion, aperture problem, Spatiotemporal filters,  Computation of depth, disparity selectivity.   (Britten)	Chapter 10
6/4	Vision as inference. Ill-posed problems, Bayesian inference, Cortical feedback and priors.  (BAO)	Chapter 11