Image Aspects

Course content

Aims

This course offers insight into the formation, perception, and cognition of images. The natural phenomenon of images will be considered from the viewpoint of physics, information theory, neuroscience, and arts history. Graduates of this course will be familiar with relationships between optics, digital image processing, image statistics, visual perception, cognitive science and visual arts.

Content

• Physical foundations of image formation
• Statistical and other properties of natural images
• Physiology of visual perception
• Biological evolution of the human visual system
• Optical illusions and what they are good for
• Relationship between images and visual information
• Visual arts as experimental neuroscience