Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

I am researching ways in which the brain learns to represent the visual world in a sensible and externally meaningful fashion. Our brain turns a confusing medley of changing and unclearly related pixels into a consistent object-based interpretation of the external world, and it does this without any explicit information on whether its interpretation is right or wrong. I am working with, and trying to develop, different models for how this learning and visual representation process occurs.

See my lab webpage at http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha

This list is possibly (likely?) out of date -- see my lab webpage at http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha

1. J Sohl-Dickstein, P Battaglino, M DeWeese. New method for parameter estimation in probabilistic models: Minimum probability flow. Physical Review Letters (2011). http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i22/e220601
2. J Sohl-Dickstein, P Battaglino, M DeWeese. Minimum probability flow learning. "Distinguished Paper" ICML (2011) http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha/pdfs/icml.pdf with supplementary material http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha/pdfs/supplementary_material_icml.pdf (also see the Persistent MPF note for more on learning in continuous state spaces)
3. J Sohl-Dickstein, BJ Culpepper. Hamiltonian annealed importance sampling for partition function estimation. Under submission, draft available as technical report. https://github.com/Sohl-Dickstein/Hamiltonian-Annealed-Importance-Sampling/blob/master/HAIS.pdf
4. A Hayes, J Grotzinger, L Edgar, SW Squyres, W Watters, J Sohl-Dickstein. Reconstruction of Eolian Bed Forms and Paleocurrents from Cross-Bedded Strata at Victoria Crater, Meridiani Planum, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research (2011) http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2010JE003688.shtml
5. CM Wang, J Sohl-Dickstein, I Tosik. Lie Group Transformation Models for Predictive Video Coding. Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference (2011) http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha/pdfs/DCC_2011_LieGroup.pdf
6. J Sohl-Dickstein, CM Wang, BA Olshausen. An Unsupervised Algorithm For Learning Lie Group Transformations. Under submission, draft available as technical report. http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1027
7. BJ Culpepper, J Sohl-Dickstein, B Olshausen. Building a better probabilistic model of images by factorization. International Conference on Computer Vision (2011) http://redwood.berkeley.edu/jascha/pdfs/culpepper-iccv13.pdf
8. C Abbey, J Sohl-Dickstein, BA Olshausen. Higher-order scene statistics of breast images. Proceedings of SPIE (2009) http://link.aip.org/link/?PSISDG/7263/726317/1
9. K Kinch, J Sohl-Dickstein, J Bell III, JR Johnson, W Goetz, GA Landis. Dust deposition on the Mars Exploration Rover Panoramic Camera (Pancam) calibration targets. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets (2007) http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JE002807.shtml
10. JR Johnson, J Sohl-Dickstein, WM Grundy, RE Arvidson, J Bell III, P Christensen, T Graff, EA Guinness, K Kinch, R Morris, MK Shepard. Radiative transfer modeling of dust-coated Pancam calibration target materials: Laboratory visible/near-infrared spectrogoniometry. Journal of Geophysical Research (2006) http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005JE002658.shtml
11. J Bell III, J Joseph, J Sohl-Dickstein, H Arneson, M Johnson, M Lemmon, D Savransky In-flight calibration and performance of the Mars Exploration Rover Panoramic Camera (Pancam) instruments. Journal of Geophysical Research (2006) http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005JE002444.shtml
12. Parker et al. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of a dry to wet eolian depositional system, Burns formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2005)Soderblom et al. Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Opportunity rover at Meridiani Planum. Science (2004) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1703
13. Soderblom et al. Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Spirit rover at Gusev crater. Science (2004) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5685/800
14. Smith et al. Athena microscopic imager investigation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets (2003)
15. Bell et al. Hubble Space Telescope Imaging and Spectroscopy of Mars During 2001. American Geophysical Union (2001)