Measuring BehaviorWe start each day with a plenary keynote session in which a distinguished speaker gives a talk which is of interest to all delegates with all their different research disciplines.
Prof. Felix Wichmann
Research:
My laboratory investigates human perception, combining psychophysical experiments with computational modelling. Currently we have four research focuses:
- First, to improve our image-based model of early spatial vision.
- Second, to connect early spatial vision with mid-level vision: perceived lightness, brightness and contrast in relation to surface reflectance and illumination in images of real scenes.
- Third, we investigate differences and similarities between deep convolutional neural networks and human object recognition.
- Fourth, we explore connections between causality from a perceptual as well as a machine learning perspective.
Career:
Felix Wichmann received his B.A. (1994) and DPhil (1999) in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. After post-doctoral research at the University of Leuven (2000-2001), he worked as a research scientist in the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (2001-2007). From 2007 to 2011 he was Associate Professor (W2) at the Technical University of Berlin and since 2011 he is Full Professor (W3) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
