Shimon Ullman
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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