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

May 15, 2026

Learning Normalized Energy Models for Linear Inverse Problems

Nicolas Zilberstein, Santiago Segarra, E. P. Simoncelli, F. Guth

Generative diffusion models can provide powerful prior probability models for inverse problems in imaging, but existing implementations suffer from two…

arXiv:2605.15487

April 23, 2026

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

Jamie Simon, Daniel Kunin, Alexander Atanasov, Enric Boix-Adser`, Blake Bordelon, J. Cohen, N. Ghosh, F. Guth, Arthur Jacot, Mason Kamb, Dhruva Karkada, Eric J. Michaud, Berkan Ottlik, Joseph Turnbull

In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean…

arXiv:2604.21691

March 1, 2026

Natural Image Statistics, Visual Representation, and Denoising

Imran Thobani, Alisa Leshchenko, E. P. Simoncelli

This article, gathered and elaborated from a lecture by Eero Simoncelli at the 2024 Analytical Connectionism Summer School, reviews several…

Proceedings of the Analytical Connectionism Schools 2023--2024

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.

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.