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https://bionicvisionlab.org

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Computational Neuroscience, Vision, Neuroengineering, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, VR/AR

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United States

Biography

Michael Beyeler directs the Bionic Vision Lab at UC Santa Barbara.
He received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Irvine as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to joining UCSB, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the labs of Ione Fine (Psychology, Institute for Neuroengineering) and Ariel Rokem (eScience Institute) at the University of Washington, where he developed computational models of bionic vision. He is Associate Director of the UCSB Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior (ReCVEB) and recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence Award.

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Employment (2)

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2019-11-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Computer Science / Psychological & Brain Sciences)
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University of Washington: Seattle, WA, US

2016-08-01 to 2019-10-31 | Moore/Sloan/WRF Postdoctoral Fellow (UWIN / eScience Institute)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of California, Irvine: Irvine, CA, US

2012-09 to 2016-05 | Ph.D. Computer Science (Computer Science)
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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich: Zürich, ZH, CH

2009-09 to 2011-11 | M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering
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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich: Zürich, ZH, CH

2005-10 to 2009-02 | B.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (D-ITET)
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Funding (3)

Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-Powered Artificial Vision for the Treatment of Incurable Blindness

2022-09-19 to 2025-08-31 | Grant
United States National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.12962673
GRANT_NUMBER: DP2LM014268
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Virtual prototyping for retinal prosthesis patients

2020-09-30 to 2023-08-31 | Grant
National Eye Institute (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9534804
GRANT_NUMBER: R00EY029329
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Virtual prototyping for retinal prosthesis patients

2018-09-01 to 2020-08-31 | Grant
National Eye Institute (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7754067
GRANT_NUMBER: K99EY029329
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Works (36)

Beyond Sight: Probing Alignment Between Image Models and Blind V1

ICLR 2024 Re-Align Workshop
2024-05-05 | Conference paper
Contributors: Galen Pogoncheff; Jacob Granley; Alfonso Rodil; Lily M. Turkstra; Lucas Gil Nadolskis; Arantxa Alfaro Saez; Cristina Soto Sanchez; Eduardo Fernandez Jover; Michael Beyeler
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Efficient multi-scale representation of visual objects using a biologically plausible spike-latency code and winner-take-all inhibition

Biological Cybernetics
2023-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-023-00956-x
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2212.00081
Part of ISSN: 1432-0770
Contributors: Melani Sanchez-Garcia; Tushar Chauhan; Benoit R. Cottereau; Michael Beyeler
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Michael Beyeler

Explainable Machine Learning Predictions of Perceptual Sensitivity for Retinal Prostheses

medRxiv
2023-02-10 | Preprint | Author
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.09.23285633
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad310f
Contributors: Galen Pogoncheff; zuying Hu; Ariel Rokem; Michael Beyeler
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Retinal ganglion cells undergo cell type–specific functional changes in a biophysically detailed model of retinal degeneration

2023-01-16 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.13.523982
Contributors: Aiwen Xu; Michael Beyeler
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Hybrid Neural Autoencoders for Stimulus Encoding in Visual and Other Sensory Neuroprostheses

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
2022 | Conference paper
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https://openreview.net/forum?id=9xVWIHFSyfl

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https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/file/8e9a6582caa59fda0302349702965171-Paper-Conference.pdf
Contributors: Granley, Jacob; Relic, Lucas; Beyeler, Michael; S. Koyejo; S. Mohamed; A. Agarwal; D. Belgrave; K. Cho; A. Oh
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Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness

Journal of Neural Engineering
2022-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aca69d
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Melani Sanchez-Garcia
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The Relative Importance of Depth Cues and Semantic Edges for Indoor Mobility Using Simulated Prosthetic Vision in Immersive Virtual Reality

2022-11-29 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3562939.3565620
Contributors: Alex Rasla; Michael Beyeler
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Greedy Optimization of Electrode Arrangement for Epiretinal Prostheses

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2022-09-17 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16449-1_57
Part of ISBN: 9783031164484
Part of ISBN: 9783031164491
Part of ISSN: 0302-9743
Part of ISSN: 1611-3349
Contributors: Ashley Bruce; Michael Beyeler
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Factors affecting two-point discrimination in Argus II patients

Frontiers in Neuroscience
2022-08-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.901337
Part of ISSN: 1662-453X
Contributors: Ezgi I. Yücel; Roksana Sadeghi; Arathy Kartha; Sandra Rocio Montezuma; Gislin Dagnelie; Ariel Rokem; Geoffrey M. Boynton; Ione Fine; Michael Beyeler
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Cortical Motion Perception Emerges from Dimensionality Reduction with Evolved Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Rules

The Journal of Neuroscience
2022-07-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0384-22.2022
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
Contributors: Kexin Chen; Michael Beyeler; Jeffrey Krichmar
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Deep Learning–Based Perceptual Stimulus Encoder for Bionic Vision

Augmented Humans 2022
2022-03-13 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.1145/3519391.3524034
Contributors: Lucas Relic; Bowen Zhang; Yi-Lin Tuan; Michael Beyeler
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Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations of Bionic Vision

Augmented Humans 2022
2022-03-13 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3519391.3522752
Contributors: Justin Kasowski; Michael Beyeler
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A Systematic Review of Extended Reality (XR) for Understanding and Augmenting Vision Loss

2021 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2109.04995
Contributors: Justin Kasowski; Byron A. Johnson; Ryan Neydavood; Anvitha Akkaraju; Michael Beyeler
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U-Net with Hierarchical Bottleneck Attention for Landmark Detection in Fundus Images of the Degenerated Retina

Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis
2021 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87000-3_7
Part of ISBN: 9783030869991
Part of ISBN: 9783030870003
Part of ISSN: 0302-9743
Part of ISSN: 1611-3349
Contributors: Shuyun Tang; Ziming Qi; Jacob Granley; Michael Beyeler
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Learning to see again: Perceptual learning of simulated abnormal on- off-cell population responses in sighted individuals

Journal of Vision
2021-12-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.13.10
Part of ISSN: 1534-7362
Contributors: Rebecca B. Esquenazi; Kimberly Meier; Michael Beyeler; Geoffrey M. Boynton; Ione Fine
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A Computational Model of Phosphene Appearance for Epiretinal Prostheses

2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
2021-11-01 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.07.447426
DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9629663
Contributors: Jacob Granley; Michael Beyeler
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Explainable AI for Retinal Prostheses: Predicting Electrode Deactivation from Routine Clinical Measures

2021 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)
2021-05-04 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.07.21253092
DOI: 10.1109/ner49283.2021.9441194
Contributors: Zuying Hu; Michael Beyeler
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Deep Learning–Based Scene Simplification for Bionic Vision

Augmented Humans Conference 2021
2021-02-22 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3458709.3458982
Contributors: Nicole Han; Sudhanshu Srivastava; Aiwen Xu; Devi Klein; Michael Beyeler
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Towards Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations of Bionic Vision

Augmented Humans Conference 2021
2021-02-22 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.1145/3458709.3459003
ARXIV: arXiv:2102.10678v1
Contributors: Justin Kasowski; Nathan Wu; Michael Beyeler
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Biophysical model of axonal stimulation in epiretinal visual prostheses

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/NER.2019.8716969
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2-s2.0-85066748978
Contributors: Beyeler, M.
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Commentary: Detailed visual cortical responses generated by retinal sheet transplants in rats with severe retinal degeneration

Frontiers in Neuroscience
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00471
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2-s2.0-85068563829

Part of ISBN:

1662453X 16624548
Contributors: Beyeler, M.
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Data-driven models in human neuroscience and neuroengineering

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.06.008
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2-s2.0-85069045171

Part of ISBN:

18736882 09594388
Contributors: Brunton, B.W.; Beyeler, M.
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Model-Based Recommendations for Optimal Surgical Placement of Epiretinal Implants

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2019 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32254-0_44
DOI: 10.1101/743484
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2-s2.0-85075694365

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16113349 03029743

Part of ISBN: 9783030322533
Part of ISBN: 9783030322540
Part of ISSN: 0302-9743
Part of ISSN: 1611-3349
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Neural correlates of sparse coding and dimensionality reduction

PLOS Computational Biology
2019-06-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006908
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Aldo A. Faisal; Emily L. Rounds; Kristofor D. Carlson; Nikil Dutt; Jeffrey L. Krichmar
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A model of ganglion axon pathways accounts for percepts elicited by retinal implants

Scientific Reports
2019-06-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45416-4
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Devyani Nanduri; James D. Weiland; Ariel Rokem; Geoffrey M. Boynton; Ione Fine
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CARLsim 4: An Open Source Library for Large Scale, Biologically Detailed Spiking Neural Network Simulation using Heterogeneous Clusters

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489326
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2-s2.0-85056540258
Contributors: Chou, T.-S.; Kashyap, H.J.; Xing, J.; Listopad, S.; Rounds, E.L.; Beyeler, M.; Dutt, N.; Krichmar, J.L.
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Learning to see again: Biological constraints on cortical plasticity and the implications for sight restoration technologies

Journal of Neural Engineering
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aa795e
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2-s2.0-85029834625
Contributors: Beyeler, M.; Rokem, A.; Boynton, G.M.; Fine, I.
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pulse2percept: A Python-based simulation framework for bionic vision

Proceedings of the 16th Python in Science Conference
2017 | Other
DOI: 10.25080/shinma-7f4c6e7-00c
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Geoffrey Boynton; Ione Fine; Ariel Rokem
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3D Visual Response Properties of MSTd Emerge from an Efficient, Sparse Population Code

Journal of Neuroscience
2016-08-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0396-16.2016
Contributors: M. Beyeler; N. Dutt; J. L. Krichmar
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A GPU-accelerated cortical neural network model for visually guided robot navigation

Neural Networks
2015-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.005
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Nicolas Oros; Nikil Dutt; Jeffrey L. Krichmar
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CARLsim 3: A user-friendly and highly optimized library for the creation of neurobiologically detailed spiking neural networks

2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2015-07 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn.2015.7280424
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Kristofor D. Carlson; Ting-Shuo Chou; Nikil Dutt; Jeffrey L. Krichmar
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Efficient spiking neural network model of pattern motion selectivity in visual cortex.

2014-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-014-9220-y
PMID: 24497233
Contributors: Beyeler M; Richert M; Dutt ND; Krichmar JL
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Vision-based robust road lane detection in urban environments

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2014-05 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/icra.2014.6907580
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Florian Mirus; Alexander Verl
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GPGPU accelerated simulation and parameter tuning for neuromorphic applications

2014 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
2014-01 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/aspdac.2014.6742952
Contributors: Kristofor D. Carlson; Michael Beyeler; Nikil Dutt; Jeffrey L. Krichmar
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Categorization and decision-making in a neurobiologically plausible spiking network using a STDP-like learning rule.

2013-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2013.07.012
PMID: 23994510
Contributors: Beyeler M; Dutt ND; Krichmar JL
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Exploring olfactory sensory networks: Simulations and hardware emulation

2010 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
2010-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/biocas.2010.5709623
Contributors: Michael Beyeler; Fabio Stefanini; Henning Proske; Giovanni Galizia; Elisabetta Chicca
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Peer review (119 reviews for 37 publications/grants)

Review activity for Acta biotheoretica. (1)
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Review activity for Frontiers in cellular neuroscience. (2)
Review activity for Frontiers in computational neuroscience. (1)
Review activity for Frontiers in human neuroscience. (5)
Review activity for Frontiers in neurorobotics. (6)
Review activity for Frontiers in neuroscience. (3)
Review activity for IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics. (1)
Review activity for IEEE journal on emerging and selected topics in circuits and systems. (2)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on cognitive and developmental systems. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on cybernetics. (5)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems. (8)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : (2)
Review activity for Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. (3)
Review activity for Journal of computational neuroscience. (1)
Review activity for Journal of neural engineering. (14)
Review activity for Journal of vision. (6)
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Review activity for Nature biomedical engineering. (2)
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Review activity for Neurocomputing. (1)
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