Name Shimon Ullman Doctoral advisor David Marr | ||
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Institutions Weizmann Institute of Science Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) Thesis The Interpretation of Visual Motion (1977) Role Computer science researcher Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Books The Interpretation of Visual Motion, High-level vision Awards EMET Prize in Exact Sciences, Rumelhart Prize People also search for David Marr, Demetri Terzopoulos, David Rumelhart, John Platt | ||
Notable students Demetri Terzopoulos | ||
6 9 14 visual intelligence shimon ullman visual understanding future directions
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.
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- Education
- Research
- Awards and honours
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Education
He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977 advised by David Marr.
Research
He is the author of several books on the topic of vision, including High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition.
Ullman is the former head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute.
Awards and honours
Ullman was awarded the 2008 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science. In 2014 he received the EMET prize in the field of computer science for his contributions to AI and computer vision.
In 2015 Ullman will be awarded Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science.
He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.