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Prof. Dr. Felix A. Wichmann

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Felix A. Wichmann

Position: Senior Researcher Unit: Alumni Schölkopf

Publications

Proceedings (3):
•	Bülthoff HH , Mallot HA , Ulrich R and Wichmann FA : 8th Tübingen Perception Conference: TWK 2005, 8th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, 202, Knirsch, Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany, (February-2005). 3-927091-70-7
•	Bülthoff HH , Mallot HA , Ulrich R and Wichmann FA : 7th Tübingen Perception Conference: TWK 2004, TWK 2004, 198, Knirsch, Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany, (January-2004). 3-927091-68-5
•	Bülthoff HH , Gegenfurtner K , Mallot HA , Ulrich R and Wichmann FA : 6. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, Sixth Perception Conference at Tübingen (TWK 2003), 183, Knirsch, Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany, (February-2003). 3-927091-62-6
Articles (23):
•	Macke JH and Wichmann FA (May-2010) Estimating predictive stimulus features from psychophysical data: The decision image technique applied to human faces Journal of Vision 10(5:22) 1-24.
•	Thielscher A and Wichmann FA (October-2009) Determining the cortical target of transcranial magnetic stimulation NeuroImage 47(4) 1319-1330.
•	Jäkel F , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (September-2009) Does Cognitive Science Need Kernels? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13(9) 381-388.
•	Kienzle W , Franz MO , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (May-2009) Center-surround patterns emerge as optimal predictors for human saccade targets Journal of Vision 9(5:7) 1-15.
•	Jäkel F , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (September-2008) Similarity, Kernels, and the Triangle Inequality Journal of Mathematical Psychology 52(2) 297-303.
•	Jäkel F , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (April-2008) Generalization and Similarity in Exemplar Models of Categorization: Insights from Machine Learning Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 15(2) 256-271.
•	Jäkel F , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (December-2007) A Tutorial on Kernel Methods for Categorization Journal of Mathematical Psychology 51(6) 343-358.
•	Rosas P , Wichmann FA and Wagemans J (April-2007) Texture and object motion in slant discrimination: Failure of reliability-based weighting of cues may be evidence for strong fusion Journal of Vision 7(6:3) 1-21.
•	Henning GB and Wichmann FA (January-2007) Some observations on the pedestal effect Journal of Vision 7(1:3) 1-15.
•	Jäkel F and Wichmann FA (November-2006) Spatial four-alternative forced-choice method is the preferred psychophysical method for naive observers Journal of Vision 6(11) 1307-1322.
•	Wichmann FA , Braun DI and Gegenfurtner KR (April-2006) Phase noise and the classification of natural images Vision Research 46(8-9) 1520-1529.
•	Graf ABA , Wichmann FA , Bülthoff HH and Schölkopf B (January-2006) Classification of Faces in Man and Machine Neural Computation 18(1) 143-165.
•	Kuss M , Jäkel F and Wichmann FA (May-2005) Bayesian inference for psychometric functions Journal of Vision 5(5) 478-492.
•	Rosas P , Wagemans J , Ernst MO and Wichmann FA (May-2005) Texture and haptic cues in slant discrimination: Reliability-based cue weighting without statistically optimal cue combination Journal of the Optical Society of America A 22(5) 801-809.
•	Kammer T , Puls K , Strasburger H , Hill NJ and Wichmann FA (2005) TMS in the visual system: I. The psychophysics of visual suppression Experimental Brain Research 160 118-128.
•	Rosas P , Wichmann FA and Wagemans J (2004) Some observations on the effects of slant and texture type on slant-from-texture Vision Research 44(13) 1511-1535.
•	Henning GB , Bird CM and Wichmann FA (2002) Contrast discrimination with pulse-trains in pink noise Journal of the Optical Society of America A 19(7) 1259-1266.
•	Bird CM , Henning GB and Wichmann FA (2002) Contrast discrimination with sinusoidal gratings of different spatial frequency Journal of the Optical Society of America A 19(7) 1267-1273.
•	Wichmann FA , Sharpe LT and Gegenfurtner KR (2002) The contribution of color to recognition memory for natural scenes Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 28(3) 509-520.
•	Wichmann FA and Hill NJ (2001) The psychometric function: I. Fitting, sampling and goodness-of-fit Perception and Psychophysics 63 (8) 1293-1313.
•	Wichmann FA and Hill NJ (2001) The psychometric function: II. Bootstrap-based confidence intervals and sampling Perception and Psychophysics 63 (8) 1314-1329.
•	Wichmann FA and Henning GB (1998) No role for motion blur in either motion detection or motion based image segmentation Journal of the Optical Society of America A 15 (2) 297-306.
•	Gegenfurtner K , Wichmann FA and Sharpe LT (1998) The contribution of color to visual memory in X-chromosome-linked dichromats. Vision Research 38 1041-1045.
Conference papers (10):
•	Kienzle W , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (September-2007) A Nonparametric Approach to Bottom-Up Visual Saliency In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 689-696.
•	Kienzle W , Schölkopf B , Wichmann F and Franz MO (September-2007) How to Find Interesting Locations in Video: A Spatiotemporal Interest Point Detector Learned from Human Eye movements In: Pattern Recognition, 29th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 405-414.
•	Laub J , Macke JH , Müller K-R and Wichmann FA (September-2007) Inducing Metric Violations in Human Similarity Judgements In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 777-784.
•	Bethge M , Wiecki TV and Wichmann FA (February-2007) The Independent Components of Natural Images are Perceptually Dependent In: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII, SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference 2007, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, USA, 1-12.
•	Kienzle W , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (April-2006) Learning an Interest Operator from Human Eye Movements In: CVPWR 2006, 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 24-24.
•	Wichmann FA , Graf ABA , Simoncelli EP , Bülthoff HH and Schölkopf B (July-2005) Machine Learning Applied to Perception: Decision Images for Classification In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2004), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1489-1496.
•	Graf ABA and Wichmann FA (June-2004) Insights from Machine Learning Applied to Human Visual Classification In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, Seventeenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2003), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 905-912.
•	Graf ABA and Wichmann FA (November-2002) Gender Classification of Human Faces In: Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2002), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1-18.
•	Ernst MO , Banks MS , Wichmann FA , Maloney L and Bülthoff HH (October-2002) Combining sensory Information to Improve Visualization IEEE Conference on Visualization 2002 (VIS '02), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 571-574.
•	Wichmann FA (2002) Luminance Artifacts on CRT Displays IEEE Visualization, 571-574.
Contributions to books (1):
•	Wagemans J , Wichmann FA and de Beeck HO : Visual perception I: Basic principles, 3-47. In: Handbook of Cognition, (Ed) K. Lamberts, Sage, London, (2005).
Technical reports (2):
•	Kuss M , Jäkel F and Wichmann FA : Approximate Bayesian Inference for Psychometric Functions using MCMC Sampling, 135, (2005).
•	Gegenfurtner KR , Wichmann FA and Sharpe LT : The contribution of colour to recognition memory in normal and colour-deficient observers, 25, (1996).
Posters (60):
•	Macke JH and Wichmann FA (August-2009): Estimating Critical Stimulus Features from Psychophysical Data: The Decision-Image Technique Applied to Human Faces, 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2009), Naples, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 9(8) 31.
•	Wichmann FA , Kienzle W , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (June-2008): Visual saliency re-visited: Center-surround patterns emerge as optimal predictors for human fixation targets, 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2008), Naples, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 8(6) 635.
•	Kienzle W , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (July-2007): Learning the Influence of Spatio-Temporal Variations in Local Image Structure on Visual Saliency, 10th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 2007), 10 1.
•	Jäkel F , Schölkopf B and Wichmann FA (February-2007): About the Triangle Inequality in Perceptual Spaces, Proceedings of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting 2007 (COSYNE), 4 308.
•	Kienzle W , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (February-2007): Center-surround filters emerge from optimizing predictivity in a free-viewing task, Proceedings of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting 2007 (COSYNE), 4 207.
•	Kienzle W , Macke JH , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (February-2007): Nonlinear Receptive Field Analysis: Making Kernel Methods Interpretable, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting 2007 (COSYNE 2007), 4 16.
•	Henning B and Wichmann FA (December-2006): Some observations on the pedestal effect or dipper function, Journal of Vision, 6(13) 50.
•	Kienzle W , Wichmann FA , Schölkopf B and Franz MO (September-2006): Learning Eye Movements, Sensory Coding And The Natural Environment, 2006 1.
•	Drewes J , Wichmann FA and Gegenfurtner K (June-2006): Classification of natural scenes: Critical features revisited, Journal of Vision, 6(6) 561.
•	Wichmann FA and Henning B (June-2006): The pedestal effect is caused by off-frequency looking, not nonlinear transduction or contrast gain-control, Journal of Vision, 6(6) 194.
•	Drewes J , Wichmann FA and Gegenfurtner KR (March-2006): Classification of Natural Scenes: Critical Features Revisited, 9th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 2006), 9 1.