Month: July 2014

Back to Basics: Sparse Coding?

A good introduction to Sparse Coding. Hope to do some stuff regarding this in the future.

The Serious Computer Vision Blog

by Gooly (Li Yang Ku)

Gabor like filters

It’s always good to go back to the reason that lured you into computer vision once in a while. Mine was to understand the brain after I astonishingly realized that computers have no intelligence while I was studying EE in undergrad. In fact if they use the translation “computer” instead of  “electrical brain” in my mother language, I would probably be better off.

Anyway, I am currently revisiting some of the first few computer vision papers I read, and to tell the truth I still learn a lot from reading stuffs I read several times before, which you can also interpret it as I never actually understood a paper.

So back to the papers,

Simoncelli, Eero P., and Bruno A. Olshausen. “Natural image statistics and neural representation.” Annual review of neuroscience 24.1 (2001): 1193-1216.

Olshausen, Bruno A., and David J. Field. “Sparse coding with an…

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