Computational Vision

We are interested in the analysis and representation of visual information, including empirical study of the structure of visual scenes, construction of mathematical theories for representation and processing that structure.

Publications

February 26, 2026

Learning a distance measure from the information-estimation geometry of data

G. Ohayon, P. Fiquet, F. Guth, Jona Ballé, E. P. Simoncelli

We introduce the Information-Estimation Metric (IEM), a novel form of distance function derived from an underlying continuous probability density over…

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

February 10, 2026

Blind denoising diffusion models and the blessings of dimensionality

Z. Kadkhodaie, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Sinho Chewi, E. P. Simoncelli

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the performance of generative diffusion models based on \emph{blind denoisers}, in which the denoiser is…

arXiv:2602.09639

January 15, 2026

Learning normalized image densities via dual score matching

F. Guth, Z. Kadkhodaie, E. P. Simoncelli

Learning probability models from data is at the heart of many machine learning endeavors, but is notoriously difficult due to…

Adv. Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS)

Group Members

Eero P. Simoncelli, Ph.D.

Director, CCN

Eero P. Simoncelli is the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience. Eero P. Simoncelli’s research interests span a wide range of topics in the representation and analysis of visual images and sounds in both machine and biological vision systems.

Pierre-Étienne Fiquet, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Computational Vision, CCN

Pierre-Étienne Fiquet is a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Neuroscience.

Florentin Guth, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Computational Vision, CCN

Florentin Guth is a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Data Science at New York University.

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Computational Vision, CCN joint with CCM

Zahra Kadkhodaie is a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Neuroscience. She earned her Ph.D. in data science at New York University (NYU), advised by Eero Simoncelli.

Xueyan (Julie) Niu

Predoctoral Researcher, Computational Vision, CCN

Julie has a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Hong Kong.

Guy Ohayon, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Computational Vision

Guy Ohayon is a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Neuroscience.

Xinyuan Zhao

Guest Researcher, Computational Vision, CCN

Xinyuan Zhao is a Ph.D. student at NYU Center for Neural Science, advised by Dr. Eero Simoncelli.