Shimon Ullman | |
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| Born | 28 January 1948 (age 76) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
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| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Thesis | The Interpretation of Visual Motion (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Marr[1] |
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| Website | www |
Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948, in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visual saliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention.[2][3]
- ^ a b Shimon Ullman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Koch, C.; Ullman, S. (1987). "Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry". Matters of Intelligence. p. 115. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5_5. ISBN 978-94-010-8206-8.
- ^ "Saliency map". scholarpedia.org.