Ellen Hildreth | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Marr–Hildreth algorithm |
| Spouse | Eric Grimson[1] |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | |
| 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 2 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
- ↑ 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, Bibcode:1980RSPSB.207..187M, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020, PMID 6102765, S2CID 2150419
- 1 2 "Curriculum Vita Ellen Catherine Hildreth" (PDF). Wellesley University. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ↑ "Current AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ Martinez-Conde, Susana; Macknik, Stephen L.; Heeger, David J. (April 2018). "An Enduring Dialogue between Computational and Empirical Vision". Trends in Neurosciences. 41 (4): 163–165. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2018.02.005.