Biography:Ellen Hildreth
Ellen Hildreth | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Marr–Hildreth algorithm |
| Spouse(s) | Eric Grimson[1] |
| Children | 2 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wellesley College |
| Thesis | The Measurement of Visual Motion (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shimon Ullman |
Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College.[2] Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.[3]
She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]
She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[5] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[4]
Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.[1]
Selected works
- Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MIT News Office (10 February 2011), Professor Eric Grimson named next chancellor: Current head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to succeed Phillip L. Clay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/grimson-chancellor-0210.html
- ↑ Ellen C. Hildreth webpage at Wellesley
- ↑ Marr, D.; Hildreth, E. (29 February 1980), "Theory of Edge Detection", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (London) 207 (1167): 187–217, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020, PMID 6102765, Bibcode: 1980RSPSB.207..187M
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Curriculum Vita Ellen Catherine Hildreth". http://cs.wellesley.edu/~vision/pubs/vitae.pdf. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ↑ "Current AAAI Fellows". http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-current.php. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ Martinez-Conde, Susana; Macknik, Stephen L.; Heeger, David J. (April 2018). "An Enduring Dialogue between Computational and Empirical Vision" (in en). Trends in Neurosciences 41 (4): 163–165. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2018.02.005. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S016622361830047X.
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