Search Results for author: Alexander S. Ecker

Found 23 papers, 16 papers with code

Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wild

no code implementations29 Jan 2024 Richard Vogg, Timo Lüddecke, Jonathan Henrich, Sharmita Dey, Matthias Nuske, Valentin Hassler, Derek Murphy, Julia Fischer, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke, Peter M. Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel, Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue, Hansjörg Scherberger, Florentin Wörgötter, Alexander S. Ecker

With this perspective paper, we want to contribute towards closing this gap, by guiding behavioral scientists in what can be expected from current methods and steering computer vision researchers towards problems that are relevant to advance research in animal behavior.

Action Recognition object-detection +1

The Dynamic Sensorium competition for predicting large-scale mouse visual cortex activity from videos

1 code implementation31 May 2023 Polina Turishcheva, Paul G. Fahey, Laura Hansel, Rachel Froebe, Kayla Ponder, Michaela Vystrčilová, Konstantin F. Willeke, Mohammad Bashiri, Eric Wang, Zhiwei Ding, Andreas S. Tolias, Fabian H. Sinz, Alexander S. Ecker

We hope this competition will continue to strengthen the accompanying Sensorium benchmarks collection as a standard tool to measure progress in large-scale neural system identification models of the entire mouse visual hierarchy and beyond.

Image Segmentation Using Text and Image Prompts

4 code implementations CVPR 2022 Timo Lüddecke, Alexander S. Ecker

After training on an extended version of the PhraseCut dataset, our system generates a binary segmentation map for an image based on a free-text prompt or on an additional image expressing the query.

Image Segmentation Multi-modal image segmentation +8

A Broad Dataset is All You Need for One-Shot Object Detection

no code implementations9 Nov 2020 Claudio Michaelis, Matthias Bethge, Alexander S. Ecker

We here show that this generalization gap can be nearly closed by increasing the number of object categories used during training.

Few-Shot Learning Metric Learning +3

Benchmarking Unsupervised Object Representations for Video Sequences

1 code implementation12 Jun 2020 Marissa A. Weis, Kashyap Chitta, Yash Sharma, Wieland Brendel, Matthias Bethge, Andreas Geiger, Alexander S. Ecker

Perceiving the world in terms of objects and tracking them through time is a crucial prerequisite for reasoning and scene understanding.

Benchmarking Clustering +5

Rotation-invariant clustering of neuronal responses in primary visual cortex

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Ivan Ustyuzhaninov, Santiago A. Cadena, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Paul G. Fahey, Edgar Y. Walker, Erick Cobos, Jacob Reimer, Fabian H. Sinz, Andreas S. Tolias, Matthias Bethge, Alexander S. Ecker

Similar to a convolutional neural network (CNN), the mammalian retina encodes visual information into several dozen nonlinear feature maps, each formed by one ganglion cell type that tiles the visual space in an approximately shift-equivariant manner.

Clustering Open-Ended Question Answering

How well do deep neural networks trained on object recognition characterize the mouse visual system?

no code implementations NeurIPS Workshop Neuro_AI 2019 Santiago A. Cadena, Fabian H. Sinz, Taliah Muhammad, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Erick Cobos, Edgar Y. Walker, Jake Reimer, Matthias Bethge, Andreas Tolias, Alexander S. Ecker

Recent work on modeling neural responses in the primate visual system has benefited from deep neural networks trained on large-scale object recognition, and found a hierarchical correspondence between layers of the artificial neural network and brain areas along the ventral visual stream.

Object Recognition

Benchmarking Robustness in Object Detection: Autonomous Driving when Winter is Coming

4 code implementations17 Jul 2019 Claudio Michaelis, Benjamin Mitzkus, Robert Geirhos, Evgenia Rusak, Oliver Bringmann, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge, Wieland Brendel

The ability to detect objects regardless of image distortions or weather conditions is crucial for real-world applications of deep learning like autonomous driving.

Autonomous Driving Benchmarking +5

Stimulus domain transfer in recurrent models for large scale cortical population prediction on video

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2018 Fabian Sinz, Alexander S. Ecker, Paul Fahey, Edgar Walker, Erick Cobos, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Dimitri Yatsenko, Zachary Pitkow, Jacob Reimer, Andreas Tolias

However, in many cases this approach requires that the model is able to generalize to stimulus statistics that it was not trained on, such as band-limited noise and other parameterized stimuli.

Pupil Dilation

One-Shot Instance Segmentation

3 code implementations28 Nov 2018 Claudio Michaelis, Ivan Ustyuzhaninov, Matthias Bethge, Alexander S. Ecker

We demonstrate empirical results on MS Coco highlighting challenges of the one-shot setting: while transferring knowledge about instance segmentation to novel object categories works very well, targeting the detection network towards the reference category appears to be more difficult.

Few-Shot Object Detection One-Shot Instance Segmentation +3

A rotation-equivariant convolutional neural network model of primary visual cortex

1 code implementation ICLR 2019 Alexander S. Ecker, Fabian H. Sinz, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Paul G. Fahey, Santiago A. Cadena, Edgar Y. Walker, Erick Cobos, Jacob Reimer, Andreas S. Tolias, Matthias Bethge

We present a framework to identify common features independent of individual neurons' orientation selectivity by using a rotation-equivariant convolutional neural network, which automatically extracts every feature at multiple different orientations.

One-Shot Segmentation in Clutter

1 code implementation ICML 2018 Claudio Michaelis, Matthias Bethge, Alexander S. Ecker

We tackle the problem of one-shot segmentation: finding and segmenting a previously unseen object in a cluttered scene based on a single instruction example.

Foreground Segmentation object-detection +2

Neural system identification for large populations separating “what” and “where”

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2017 David Klindt, Alexander S. Ecker, Thomas Euler, Matthias Bethge

Traditional methods for neural system identification do not capitalize on this separation of “what” and “where”.

A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style

285 code implementations26 Aug 2015 Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge

In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image.

Style Transfer

Texture Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks

15 code implementations NeurIPS 2015 Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge

Here we introduce a new model of natural textures based on the feature spaces of convolutional neural networks optimised for object recognition.

Object Object Recognition +1

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