Jörg Lücke

Jörg Lücke

Head of the Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning Group
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt a. M.
Germany

The Group:

_{I fund my own position and my group by grants provided by the German
Research Foundation (DFG), the German Ministry of Research and
Education (BMBF), and by a project with the Honda Research Institute
Europe (HRI). Group members are (in alphabetic order) Zhenwen Dai,
Marc Henniges, Christian Keck, Jacquelyn Shelton, and Saboor Sheikh.
Jörg Bornschein is co-supervised by me.

Please see our group website for more information.}

Research:

_{We study information processing and learning in biological and
computational systems. We investigate such systems from the
perspectives of Computational Neuroscience, Dynamical Systems Theory,
and Machine Learning. Each individual perspective answers important
questions about the studied systems while their combination allows
cross-fertilization and the development of integrated views.

Our main research focuses are unsupervised learning and computer
vision. We pursue and conduct projects on
non-linear component extraction,

visual object recognition,
and learning in cortical circuits.

Furthermore, our research interests in the Neurosciences include neuro-anatomy
and the analysis of neural data.}

Open Positions:_{We currently have a small number of Master projects to offer for interested students in physics,
computer science, mathematics or a related field. Please, see open positions
for more details.
Furthermore, we have one student job positions (basis 400EUR per month) available for work in
interdisciplinary research projects. Also see open positions
for details.}

Selected Recent Publications:

_{G. Puertas^*, J. Bornschein^*, and J. Lücke (2010).

The Maximal Causes of Natural Scenes are Edge Filters
(pdf,
bibtex,
supplement).

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23, 1939-1947.

^*joint first authorship}

_{J. Lücke and J. Eggert (2010).

Expectation Truncation and the Benefits of Preselection in Training Generative Models
(pdf,
bibtex,
animations).

Journal of Machine Learning Research 11:2855-2900.}

_{J. Lücke (2009).

Receptive Field Self-Organization in a Model of the Fine-Structure in V1 Cortical Columns
(online access,
bibtex).

Neural Computation, 21(10):2805-2845.}

_{J. Lücke, R. Turner, M. Sahani, and M. Henniges (2009).

Occlusive Components Analysis
(pdf,
bibtex,
supplement).

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, 1069-1077.}

_{C. Möller, N. Arai, J. Lücke, and U. Ziemann (2009).

Hysteresis Effects on the Input-Output Curve of Motor Evoked Potentials
(pdf,
bibtex).

Clinical Neurophysiology 120(5):1003--1008.}

_{P. Wolfrum, C. Wolff, J. Lücke, and C. von der Malsburg (2008).

A Recurrent Dynamic Model for Correspondence-Based Face Recognition
(pdf,
bibtex).

Journal of Vision 8(7):34, 1-18.}

_{J. Lücke and M. Sahani (2008).

Maximal Causes for Non-linear Component Extraction
(pdf,
bibtex).

Journal of Machine Learning Research 9:1227-1267.}

_{J. Lücke, C. Keck, and C. von der Malsburg (2008).

Rapid Convergence to Feature Layer Correspondences
(preprint,
doi,
bibtex).

Neural Computation 20(10):2441-2463.}

_{Publications (full list)}

Bio-Sketch:
12/2007 - present: FIAS, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
06/2005 - 11/2007: Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK
04/2001 - 05/2005: Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; LCBV, Dept. Computer Science, USC, USA
10/1999 - 03/2001: Dept. of Computer Science, Universität Dortmund, Germany.
10/1993 - 09/1999: Centre de Physique Théorique, Université Aix-Marseille, France; Dept. of Physics, Universität Dortmund, Germany; Depts. of Physics and Mathematics, Exeter University, UK

Events:

30 Sep - 2 Oct 2009	Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience
	_{Venue: Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.}
	Please go to http://bccn2009.org for more information.


27-28 Nov 2008	International Workshop: Machine Learning Approaches to Representational Learning and Recognition in Vision
	_{Venue: FIAS, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.}
	_{Organization: Jörg Lücke; Co-organization: Christian Keck; Assistance: Gaby Schmitz.}
	_{Sponsor: Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.}
	Thank you for your participation! Participants, program, and pictures see here.

Copyright notice: The papers listed above have been published after peer review in different journals. These journals remain the only definitive repository of the content. Copyright and all rights therein are usually retained by the respective publishers. These materials may not be copied or reposted without their explicit permission. Use for scholarly purposes only.