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Matthias Bethge, Prof. Dr.
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MPI for Biological Cybernetics
NWG Bethge
Spemannstraße 41
72076 Tübingen
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+49-7071-601 1770 |
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+49-3212-12 44 313 |
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1.B.04 |
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mbethge@tuebingen.mpg.de |
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The goal of my research is to understand how the brain makes sense of its high-dimensional sensory input. In particular, I seek to understand the formation of neural representations in the early visual system and its computational role for perception of natural images. Despite the apparent ease of perception, visual inference is theoretically difficult and challenges our understanding of the neurobiology of vision: The computations simulated by current models of neural processing in the visual system generally fail to reproduce the human performances in virtually all real-world visual inference tasks.
My approach is to combine computational modeling of early and intermediate level vision with psychophysical testing, and neurobiological data analysis. In particular, I am trying to unravel how the extraction and representation of suitable low-level image cues can be used to serve object-related inferences such as object-size, shape, pose, etc.
From 1993 through 1998, I studied physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, preparing my diploma thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization in the group of Theo Geisel. Subsequently, I became a PhD student in the group of Klaus Pawelzik at the University of Bremen. After finishing my PhD in 2003, I have been working together with Bruno Olshausen as a PostDoc at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. In July 2005 the institute has been transfered to UC Berkeley as the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Since 2005 I am located at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics. Recently in 2009, I became a Professor at the University of Tübingen in the Institute of Theoretical Physics.
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