Updated: Jul 8, 2019
Bastian, Leon and Tobias headed to Rome to attend the OHBM annual meeting. Besides Bastians talk "Conditional generative adversarial networks support the detection of focal cortical dysplasia" and the three posters they presented at the meeting, they explored roman culture and enjoyed italian lifestyle.
The OHBM Merit Award is not the only award, Bastian has won in March: Him and Eleonora Ambrad Giovannetti, who created the oil on canvas artwork, submitted their painting to the Bonn Brain Art Competition, being held as part of the 2019 Bonn Brain Meeting, and collected the most votes. Bastian explains:
"Our artwork depicts a mathematical representation of the famous perceptron, the widely used workhorse behind artificial neural networks, invented by the American psychologist Frank Rosenblatt (1957). With the broadly celebrated (and sometimes feared) advances in the field of deep learning, the greater public starts directing existential questions about basic as well as advanced brain functions towards Computer Scientists. This results in a plethora of highly speculative and plainly wrong assumptions of the actual biological neural networks. The here alluded painting of René Magritte „The treachery of images“, depicts a pipe, which in the form of an oil painting is nothing more than a visual representation and will never materialize to an actual pipe. In parallel to this, the artifical neurons modelled in current AI-research, are mere oversimplified mathematical echoes of the complex systems, we as Neuroscientists aim to decipher."
Updated: May 19, 2019
The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), the most important professional society for neuroimaging research, has conferred one of 15 prestigious OHBM Merit Awards to Bastian David for his work „Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks Support the Detection of Focal Cortical Dysplasias“. Bastian will present his this yet unpublished study as part of an oral session at the annual meeting of the OHBM in Rome on Thursday, June 13.
