Ellen Hildreth

"My research explores human vision through the creation of computational models of visual processing and observations from perceptual experiments."

"My work focuses on how we analyze the three-dimensional structure and movement of objects in the environment through the integration of cues such as image motion and stereo vision, and use this information for the visual guidance of tasks such as steering a vehicle and catching a ball."

"As we move through complex scenes of the sort that arise when we drive or play sports, we quickly perceive distinct objects that we can recognize, track, or interact with in some way. A critical step in this process is to locate object boundaries in the rapidly changing image that reaches the eye."

"I teach an advanced course on vision that combines the study of state-of-the-art computer vision systems with observations from psychology and neuroscience about the visual processing strategies used in biological systems."

"I serve on the advisory committees for the Neuroscience program and the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences program. Through these interdepartmental programs, students engage in a broad interdisciplinary study of the nervous system and the mind."

"They can pursue an area of concentration that includes coursework in computer science and research that incorporates the perspective of computational modeling."