Projects

This is a list of completed, ongoing and tentative Ikaros subprojects. The goal of each subproject is to investigate some aspect of the brain or some cognitive phenomenon and make an implementation in one or several Ikaros modules.

Ongoing

Learning in Visual Attention
Contextual Reinforcement Learning
Visual Contour Reconstruction
Stereopsis
Generalizing Look-Up Tables
Modeling Developmental Disorders
Somatosensory Processing and Cortical Plasticity
Basal Ganglia

Completed

Visual Navigation for a Mobile Robot
3D Interpretation of Edges
A Computational Model of the Amygdala
A Computational Model of Context Processing
A Comparative Study of Classical Conditioning Models
The Brain Database - A Proof of Concept
Optic Flow

Tentative

Depth from Motion
Shape from Shading
Transparency
Texture Recognition
Preattentive Vision
Color Constancy
Shadow Detection
Brain Modeling
Head Localization and Tracking
Recognition of Facial Expressions
Speech Recognition
Mouth Tracking for Multimodal Speech Recognition
Hand Localization and Gesture Recognition
Hierarchical Feature Maps
Bayesian Inference Networks
Bayesian Image Enhancement
Edge and Contour Localization in Images
Object Recognition
Spatial Hearing
Auditory Attention
Sound Recognition
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Procesing in Hierarchical Networks
Visual Target Tracking
Optic Flow
Motion Detection with a Moving Camera
Sensory-Motor Transformations
Adaptive Avoidance Reflexes
Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance without Learning

These tentative projects are suitable for a MSc thesis or other one-semester project in Cognitive Science or Computer Science. They are also possible as a topics for a PhD thesis. We encourage anyone interested to contribute to the project.

How to contribute?

If you would like to take on one of the tentative projects or have written or improved a module for Ikaros that you would like listed here please contact Christian Balkenius (christian.balkenius@lucs.lu.se).