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Ellen Hildreth

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Ellen Hildreth
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forMarr–Hildreth algorithm
SpouseEric Grimson[1]
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Cognitive science
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellesley College
ThesisThe Measurement of Visual Motion (1983)
Doctoral advisorShimon 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

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  • Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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
  2. ^ Ellen C. Hildreth webpage at Wellesley
  3. ^ Marr, D.; Hildreth, E. (29 February 1980), "Theory of Edge Detection", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 207 (1167), London: 187–217, Bibcode:1980RSPSB.207..187M, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020, PMID 6102765, S2CID 2150419
  4. ^ a b "Curriculum Vita Ellen Catherine Hildreth" (PDF). Wellesley University. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Current AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  6. ^ 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.