Visual Information Processing

Research questions and solutions during my PhD in Neuroscience

Perception is an “unconscious inference”, stated by Hermann von Helmholtz, and believed by me, a scientist studying how our brain processes rich and ambiguous visual information.

It seems that, from the perspective of information processing, the brain is an information processor that never rests but constantly implements statistical inference, for example, using Bayes rules and joint probabilities.

I am particularly interested in the computational representations of the inference in our brain.

To investigate them, I measure visual percepts of humans and reveal the underlying models. I have been coding psychophysical experiment programs in Python, applying statistical analysis on measurement data, using modeling and optimization techniques, and of course, being always eager to learn and try new ideas.

The research projects is still ongoing, which are expected to result in three research publications.

I have published manuscripts and presented the findings in conferences - check out my Google Scholar if you are interested.