Ellen Hildreth

Ellen Hildreth
Nationality American
Fields Computer science
Cognitive science
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellesley College
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis The Measurement of Visual Motion (1983)
Doctoral advisor Shimon Ullman
Known for Marr–Hildreth algorithm
Notable awards
Spouse Eric Grimson[1]

Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a Professor of computer science at Wellesley College.[2] She earned her Ph.D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her field is visual perception and computer vision. She is the co-inventor with David Marr of the Marr-Hildreth algorithm.[3] She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[4]

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

References

  1. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/grimson-chancellor-0210.html
  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, London, 207 (1167): 187–217, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020
  4. "Current AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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