Agenda for What Can Computer Vision Do for Neuroscience and Vice Versa?

Schedule at a Glance

Sunday September 14th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's Pub

Monday September 15th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome Address
9:10 am Session 1: Biology-Motivated Computer Vision Methods
10:40 am Break and Group Photo
11:10 am Session 2: High-Content Imaging and Screening
12:40 pm Lunch
1:40 pm Tour (optional)
3:00 pm Session 3: EM Reconstruction
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Poster Reception

Tuesday September 16th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 4: Brain Image Registration and Atlas Modeling I
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Session 5: Brain Image Registration and Atlas Modeling II
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Session 6: Neuron Tracing and Modeling
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Session 7: Tracking and Modeling Behavior
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Poster Reception

Wednesday September 17th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:30 am Session 8: Tracking/Tracing Techniques for Cellular Processes and Other Applications
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Session 9: Additional Topics
12:30 pm Closing Remarks
12:35 pm Lunch (Take out boxes from Servery & shuttles to Dulles available)
1:00 pm First shuttle to Dulles
1:45 pm Second shuttle to Dulles
2:30 pm Last shuttle to Dulles

Full Schedule

Sunday September 14th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's

Monday September 15th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Opening Remarks - Gene Myers
9:10 am - Session 1: Biology-Motivated Computer Vision Methods
Chair: Gene Myers
9:10 am - Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Models of visual recognition in the cortex
9:40 am - Charles Bouman, Purdue University
The growing need for image interpretation in medical and neuro-imaging
10:10 am - Yan LeCun, New York University
Learning deep feature hierarchies
10:40 am - Break and Group Photo
11:10 am - Session 2: High-Content Imaging and Screening
Chair: Hanchuan Peng
11:10 am - Jens Rittscher, GE Global Research
Towards monitoring cellular motion and function
11:40 am - Jitendra Malik, University of California, Berkeley
Visual grouping: Finding contours and regions in natural images
12:10 pm - Stephen Wong, The Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College
Multi-scale imaging in systems neurobiology
12:40 pm - Lunch
1:40 pm - Tour (optional)
3:00 pm - Session 3: EM Reconstruction
Chair: Giorgio Ascoli
3:00 pm - Winfried Denk, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research
Improvements in SBFSEM, tissue preservation, and cell-membrane staining methods
3:30 pm - Dmitri Chklovskii, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Reconstructing the first stage of visual processing in Drosophila
4:00 pm - Ross Whitaker, University of Utah
Analysis and visualization tools for exploring large serial-section datasets
6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Poster Reception

Tuesday September 16th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 4: Brain Image Registration and Atlas Modeling I
Chair: Charles Bouman
9:00 am - Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles
Deformable models and organisms for brain image analysis
9:30 am - Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania
Computational methods for quantitative analysis of brain diseases
10:00 am - Hanchuan Peng, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
3D brain image analysis pipeline
10:30 am - Break
11:00 am - Session 5: Brain Image Registration and Atlas Modeling II
Chair: Yann LeCun
11:00 am - Dzung Pham, Johns Hopkins University
Digital topology constraints in the segmentation and registration of brain images
11:30 am - Fuhui Long, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Building 3D digital nuclei atlases of model organisms
12:00 pm - Pavel Tomancak, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Global optimization approach for combined 2D mosaicing and 3D registration of large serial section TEM datasets
12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Session 6: Neuron Tracing and Modeling
Chair: Stephen Wong
2:00 pm - Gene Myers, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Building neuroanatomical models with light data
2:30 pm - Badri Roysam, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
The FARSIGHT Project: Associative 3D/4D/5D image analysis methods for quantitative neuroscience
3:00 pm - Giorgio Ascoli, George Mason University
Computer simulations of neuronal morphology and automated digital tracing: A win/win image-data-model reconstruction loop
3:30 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Session 7: Tracking and Modeling of Behavior
Chair: Dmitri Chklovskii or Hanchuan Peng
4:00 pm - Pietro Perona, California Institute of Technology
Automating the analysis of behavior: Our first baby steps and our grand dreams.
4:30 pm - Rex Kerr, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Uncovering the neural basis of behavior with simple and complex computer vision
6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Poster Reception

Wednesday September 17th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:30 am - Session 8: Tracking/Tracing Techniques for Cellular Processes and Other Applications
Chair: Winfried Denk
9:30 am - Christophe Zimmer, Institute Pasteur
High resolution computational mapping of gene territories in living cells
10:00 am - Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
Unsupervised segmentation of fiber bundles in diffusion tensor images
10:30 am - Break
11:00 am - Session 9: Additional Topics
Chair: Dmitri Chklovskii
11:00 am - James Gee, University of Pennsylvania
Methods developed for the Allen Brain Atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain
11:00 am - Ashok Veeraraghavan, University of Maryland
Coded computational photography for deblurring and light-field capture
12:00 am - Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania
Simplify visual recognition with contours
12:30 pm - Closing Remarks
12:35 pm - Lunch (Take out boxes from Servery & shuttles to Dulles available)
1:00 pm - First shuttle to Dulles
1:45 pm - Second shuttle to Dulles
2:30 pm - Last shuttle to Dulles

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