Computational Visual Cognition Laboratory

September 8, 2008: Total Recall: Human memory capacity much bigger than previously though. Press release article about Brady, Konkle, Alvarez & Oliva (2008) , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Website with Massive Memory stimuli here

September 29, 2007: The hybrid series Eight Einsteins goes on exhibition at the MIT Museum in the new Mark Epstein Gallery. See the Press Release

March 31, 2007:New Scientist Magazine, (issue 2597), features Hybrid Images in the articleNow you see them... A new type of optical illusion is helping us to understand how the brain processes visual scenes.

June/July 2006:Scientific American: Mind,features Hybrid Images in the article "Cracking the DaVinci Code"

February 2006: French magazineCa m' Interesse features Hybrid Images

A list of more than 50 fellowships for prospective graduate students, current graduate students and post-doctoral students in all disciplines related to brain and cognitive sciences, as well as computer science is available here: Graduate Study Fellowships Post-doctoral Fellowships

Frontiers in Computer Vision An NSF funded workshop on Frontiers in Computer Vision to be held at CSAIL, MIT, in August 21-24, 2011.

SUnS 11 The Fifth Scene Understanding Symposium SUnS 11 is Friday, January, 28, 2011 at MIT.

SUnS 09 The Fourth Scene Understanding Symposium SUnS 09 was Friday, January, 30, 2009 at MIT.

SUnS 08 The Third Scene Understanding Symposium was held on February 1, 2008 at MIT.

VSS 2007 Symposium: Natural Scene Understanding: Statistics, Recognition and Representation. Co-chairs: Li Fei-Fei & Aude Oliva. Speakers: Simon Thorpe, Bruno Olshausen, Irving Biederman, Russell Epstein, Aude Oliva, Li Fei-Fei

Natural scene understanding is one of the most challenging problems in today's vision sciences. Tremendous progress has been made recently toward characterizing formal and neural underpinning of natural image analysis. The symposium offers a modern and multidisciplinary view on scene understanding by bringing together six speakers from the fields of computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, cognitive science ann computer vision. The presentation is highlight the recent advances in the study of natural scene perception, as well as present a unique opportunity to create new directions for this promising field

SUnS 07 The Second Scene Understanding Symposium was held February 1st and 2nd, 2007 at MIT. The symposium featured ~20 speakers from various fields including; visual cognition, computational vision, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience & neurophysiology. Organizers: Aude Oliva, Thomas Serre, Antonio Torralba

SUnS 06 The First Scene Understanding Symposium Friday, February 17, 2006 at MIT. Organizers: Aude Oliva, Thomas Serre and Antonio Torralba