Benoit Cottereau

Three fully funded PhD fellowships are available to work at the CNRS (Cerco laboratory in Toulouse and also IPAL in Singapore) under the supervision of Benoit Cottereau (CNRS research director), in close collaboration with Robby Tan (assistant professor at NUS, Singapore). The aim of the project is to develop computational models of spatial cognition in humans (e.g., for depth/motion perception or navigation). In order to reproduce the very low energy consumption of visual information processing in biological systems, these models will be based on spiking-neural networks (SNNs) and will process data collected from event-based cameras. They should also adapt to variations in visual conditions (e.g., to night scenes or when parts of the input data are occluded). These models will be evaluated with respect to state-of-art approaches in computer vision/AI but also with respect to biological data (their responses will be compared to those observed in neural recordings and/or in behavioural experiments).