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David H. Brainard, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Website
simonsfoundation.org/life-sciences/simons-collaboration-on-the-global-brain-scientific-mission/foundations-global-brain-collaboration/david-h-brainard

Publications

Comprehensive characterization of human color discrimination thresholds

eLife, bioRxiv: 2025.07. 16.665219, November 25, 2025

Fangfang Hong, Ruby Bouhassira, Jason Chow, Craig Sanders, Michael Shvartsman, Phillip Guan, et al.

Generalized Compressed Sensing for Image Reconstruction with Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, arXiv:2405.17456v4, 2025

Ling-Qi Zhang, Z. Kadkhodaie, E. Simoncelli, and D. Brainard

Optimal compressed sensing for image reconstruction with diffusion probabilistic models

Transactions on Machine Learning, arXiv:2405.17456, May 22, 2024

Ling-Qi Zhang, Z. Kadkhodaie, E. Simoncelli, and D. Brainard

The relative contribution of color and material in object selection.

PLoS Comput Biol., April 12, 2019

A Radonjić, NP Cottaris, and D. Brainard

Projects

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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration

Large-scale data and computational framework for circuit investigation

Funded Work

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