| Welcome to
the Complex Systems & Cognition Laboratory at UC San Diego. |
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| Latest News:
2004-05-18: we have a new demo video presented at the ICRA 2004 conference: ICRA2004demo.mpg (12 MB) 2004-05-05: we have our Database of cluttered scenes of everyday objects available online. 2004-01-14: we have a demo video of the robot head tracking human face : activefacetracking.mpg (832KB) 2003-08-22: check out our new robot videos demonstrating simple face detection and tracking: robot-2003-08.mov (full version, 5.2 MB), robot-2003-08-small.mp4 (smaller and shorter version, 981 KB). Best viewed with free Quicktime Player. |
| Local Events: lab meetings are on hold while Jochen is in Frankfurt, AI Research Seminar, Neuroscience Seminar Series, Psychology Colloquium |
| Overview:
The lab was established in Fall 2001. Our goal is to further our
understanding of how cognitive phenomena can arise from the
collective interactions of relatively simple neural elements.
Particular emphasis is put on active visual perception and learning.
The
lab closely integrates two complementary methodologies. First, we
build computational and robotic models of various aspects of visual
cognition and learning. Second, we study and analyze visual
cognition in human subjects in controlled psychophysical
experiments. The close integration of analytic and synthetic approaches
to cognition (studying real brains and building artificial ones) helps
us better understand the computational principles underlying
intelligent behavior. |
| Support: National Science Foundation, National Alliance for Autism Research, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, BACATEC, IBM |