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Seeing through a Bayes window| old_uid | 1798 |
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| title | Seeing through a Bayes window |
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| start_date | 2006/11/22 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | How do we recognise shadows? A dark region might be a shadow, or it might be a patch of paint. Probabilities come into play, which may be described and explained with Bayesian concepts. The Revered Thomas Bayes considered probabilities from gambling, in the 18th Century. Now these concepts are tools and insights into perceptual brain function.
Richard Gregory went to Cambridge just after the war, and stayed on as a Lecturer and a Fellow of Downing and Corpus Christi Colleges, running the Special Senses Laboratory. He then went to Edinburgh to start, with two colleagues, the first department of Artificial Intelligence in Europe. After this, he became Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory in the Medical School in the University of Bristol. He has written about 20 books on perception and philosophy of science and has done a large variety of research, much of it on illusions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a CBE. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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