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American computer scientist
Ellen Hildreth
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forMarr–Hildreth algorithm
SpouseEric Grimson
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. Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.

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.

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.

Selected works

  • Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)

References

  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
  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. ^ "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. PMID 29602332.
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