2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Information and Communications Engineering Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
Basic Sensation Informatics
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hirohiko Kaneko / Takehiro Nagai
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ICT.H411
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
It is described how human perceptual system obtains, transfers, analyzes and integrates information from the outside world so that a final perceptual image can be created in human brain. Fundamental aspects of visual and other sensory systems, including the structures, methods for measuring the perceptual responses and psychophysical and physiological functions, are explained showing many experimental data.
This will allow them to understand basic knowledge about the functions and structures of human sensory systems and the way of thinking when studying human sensory systems.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to 1) understand the basic properties of human sensory systems such as vision and hearing and 2) explain the relationship between the properties and information systems.
Keywords
Visual Information Processing, Human Information Processing, Sensation, Psychophysics
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
At the beginning of each class, solutions to exercise problems that were assigned in the previous class are reviewed. In the end of the class, students are given quizzes related to the lecture given that day. To prepare for the class, students should read the course schedule section and check what topics will be covered. Required learning should be completed outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance of the lecture, Visual system 1: Introduction, Structure and function of the eye | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 2 | Basic mechanism for light perception | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 3 | Basic mechanism for color perception | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 4 | Basic mechanism for spatial vision I (Eye) | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 5 | Basic mechanism for spatial vision II (Brain) | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 6 | Perception of self motion and orientation | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
| Class 7 | Eye movements and visual perception | Reviewing key contents of the lecture and quizes. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Materials used in class can be found on T2Schola.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
1. R. Snowden, P. Thompson, T. Troscianko, Basic Vision, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
2. J. M. Wolfe et al., Sensation and Perception 2nd ed., Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2009.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Quiz at each course session: 75%, and a report at the end of course: 25%.
Related courses
- ICT.H514 ： Mechanisms of Visual Perception
Prerequisites
No prior conditions