Suggested readings:

Ted Adelson (http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson)

Matthias Bethge (http://bethgelab.org/)
Simoncelli & Olshausen (2001): Natural Image Statistics and Neural Representation. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 24:1193–216.
Eichhorn, Sinz, Bethge (2009): Natural image coding in V1: How much use is orientation selectivity? PLoS Computational Biology, 5(4).
Theis, Hosseini, Bethge (2011): Mixtures of conditional Gaussian scale mixtures applied to multiscale image representations. http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4389

Michael Black (http://ps.is.tue.mpg.de/)

Bruce Cumming (http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=441)
Cumming, DeAngelis (2001): The physiology of stereopsis. Annu Rev Neurosci, 24: 203-238.
Haefner, Cumming (2008): Adaptation to natural binocular disparities in primate V1 explained by a generalized energy model. Neuron, 57(1): 147-158.
Tanabe, Haefner (2011): Suppressive mechanisms in monkey V1 help to solve the stereo correspondence problem. J Neuorsci 31(22): 8295-8305.

Alexei Efros (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~efros/)
Biederman 1981. On the semantics of a glance at a scene.
Hoiem, Efros, Hebert, IJCV 2007. Recovering Surface Layout from an Image.
Havely, Norvig, Pereira, EEE Intelligent Systems, 2009. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data.

James Elder (http://elderlab.yorku.ca/)
Velisavljevic, L.. & Elder, J.H. (2009) Cue dynamics underlying rapid detection of animals in natural scenes, Journal of Vision, 9(7):7, 1-20, doi:10.1167/9.7.7.
Oleskiw, T.D., Elder, J.H. & Peyré, G.. (2010) On growth and formlets: sparse multi-scale coding of planar shape, in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.

Ralf Engbert (http://mbd.psych.uni-potsdam.de/~ralfweb/EngbertLab/Welcome.html)
Martinez-Conde et al (2009): Microsaccades: a neurophysiological analysis. TINS 32 (9): 463-475.
Engbert et al (2011): An integrated moel of fixational eye movements and microsaccades. PNAS 108 (39): 765-770.

Thomas Euler (http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de/research/euler.php)
Gollisch & Meister (2010): Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural Computations in Circuits of the Retina. Neuron 65: 150-164.
Borst & Euler (2011): Seeing things in motion: Models, circuits, and mechanisms. Neuron 71: 974-994.

Michael Felsberg (http://people.isy.liu.se/en/cvl/mfe/)
Felsberg & Koethe (2005): GET: The Connection Between Monogenic Scale-Space and Gaussian Derivatives. Scale-Space, LNCS 3459, pp. 192–203.
Felsberg, Duits & Florack (2005): The Monogenic Scale Space on a rectangular Domain and its Features. International Journal of Computer Vision 64(2/3), 187–201.

Roland Fleming (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/roland/)

Jan Koenderink (http://www.gestaltrevision.be/en/about-us/contact/all-contacts/45-jan-j-koenderink)
E-books can be downloaded here: The eBook 1.5 are relevant for the course.

Michael Land (http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/research/land/mike.htm)

Stephane Mallat (http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~mallat/)

Larry Maloney (http://www.psych.nyu.edu/maloney/)

Tony Movshon (http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~tony/)
Lennie & Movshon (2005). Coding of color and form in the geniculostriate visual pathway (invited review). J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol. 22, No. 10, 2013-2033.
Born & Bradley (2005). Structure and Function of Visual Area MT. Annu Rev Neurosci, 28:157-89.
Carandini &Heeger (2012). Normalization as a canonical neural computation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 51-62.

Ruth Rosenholtz (http://web.mit.edu/rruth/www/)
Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade (1980). "A feature-integration theory of attention." Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 97-136.
Ruth Rosenholtz, Jie Huang and Krista A. Ehinger,"Rethinking the role of top-down attention in vision: effects attributable to a lossy representation in peripheral vision," Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 2012, http://www.frontiersin.org/consciousness_research/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00013/abstract

Frank Schaeffel (http://www.uak.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/frank/peo1_schaeffel.html)
Schaeffel (2006): Processing of information in the human visual system. Handbook of machine vision. Wiley VCH Verlag.
Schaeffel (1993): Inter-individual variability in the dynamics of natural accomodation in humans: relation to age and refractive errors. Journal of Physiology 461, p 301-320.

Eero Simoncelli (http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/)

Christopher Tyler (http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/index.html)
Tyler (2007): Some principles of spatial organization art. Spatial Vision 20 (6), p 509-530.
Tyler & Smith & Stork (2012): In search of Leonardo: Computer-based facial image analysis of Renaissance artworks for identifying as subject. Proc SPIE 8291.
http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/CWTyler/Art%20Investigations/index.html

Brian Wandell (http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/)
Background reading are Chapters 2-4 of "Foundation of Vision".

Felix Wichmann (http://www.nip.uni-tuebingen.de/)