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Neil
D. B. Bruce Postdoc Lab for Active and Attentive Vision York University Toronto Canada E-Mail: neil@cse.yorku.ca |
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Fully Refereed Bruce, N.D.B.*, Shi, X.*, Tsotsos, J.K., Recurrent Refinement for Visual Saliency Estimation. (Under review, CRV 2012) Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., Attention in Stereo Vision: Implications for Computational Models of Attention. In Pomplun, M., Suzuki, J., Developing and Applying Biologically-Inspired Vision Systems: Interdisciplinary Concepts. IGI Global, 2012. (In press) Bruce, N.D.B. Tsotsos, J.K., Visual representation determines search difficulty: explaining visual search asymmetries. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 5:33, 2011. link Shi, X.*, Bruce, N.D.B.*, Tsotsos, J.K., Fast, Recurrent, Attentional Modulation Improves Saliency Representation and Scene Recognition CVPR 2011 Workshop on Biologically-Consistent Vision. link Bruce, N.D.B., Shi, X., Simine, E., Tsotsos, J.K., Visual Representation in the Determination of Saliency, in Proceedings of CRV 2011, 25-27, pp. 242-249, St. Johns, NL. link Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K.,
Saliency, Attention, and Visual Search: An Information Theoretic
Approach, Journal of Vision 9:3, p1-24, 2009,
http://journalofvision.org/9/3/5/,
doi:10.1167/9.3.5. Bruce, N.D.B., and Kornprobst, P., On the role of context in probabilistic models of visual saliency, In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image processing, 2009. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., and Kornprobst, P., Harris corners in the Real World: A Principled Selection Criterion for Interest Points Based on Ecological Statistics, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. pdf Tsotsos, J.K., Bruce, N.D.B.,
Computational foundations for attentive processes,
Scholarpedia 3(12):6545, 2008. Loach, D., Frischen, A., Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., An attentional mechanism for selecting appropriate actions afforded by graspable objects, Psychological Science 19(12), p 1253-1257, 2008. link Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K.,
Spatiotemporal Saliency: Towards a Hierarchical Representation of Visual
Saliency, 5th Int. Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, Santorini
Bruce, N.D.B., Loach, D., Tsotsos, J.K., Visual Correlates Of Fixation Selection: A Look At The Spatial Frequency Domain, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, San Antonio, Sept. 16-19, 2007. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., An Information Theoretic Model of Saliency and Visual Search, L. Paletta and E. Rome (Eds.): WAPCV 2007, LNAI 4840, pp. 171–183, 2007. Selected for oral presentation pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., Saliency Based on Information Maximization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 18, pp. 155-162, June 2006. Selected for oral presentation pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., A Statistical Basis for Visual Field Anisotropies. Neurocomputing, v. 69:10-12, pp. 1301-1304, June 2006. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., An Attentional Framework for Stereo Vision, In Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Victoria, BC, 2005. Selected for oral presentation pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Features that draw visual attention: An information theoretic perspective. Neurocomputing, v. 65-66, pp. 125-133, May 2005. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Image analysis through local information measures. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 2004. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Jernigan, M.E. Evolutionary Design of Context-Free Attentional Operators. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain, 2003. pdf Zelek, J.S., Bruce, N.D.B., Kanwar, R. Automated Monitoring of Pigs from Afar. In Proceedings Vision Interface 2000, pp. 166-173, Montreal, QC, 2000. pdf Theses, Book Chapters and Technical Reports Bruce, N.D.B., Saliency, Attention and Visual Search: An Information Theoretic Approach, Ph.D. Thesis, York University, 2008. pdf Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., A Connectionist Perspective on Laterality in Visual Attention, York University, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, March 2005. pdf Tombu, M., Bruce, N.D.B., Rothenstein, A., Tsotsos, J.K. A Brief Tour of This Volume, Neurobiology of Attention, Ed. by L. Itti, G. Rees, J.K. Tsotsos, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2004. link Bruce, N.D.B. Evolutionary Design for Computational Visual Attention. M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2003. pdf Abstracts, Posters and Invited Talks Bruce, N.D.B., On the use of Shannon information and Bayesian surprise in modeling attention, Models and Mechanisms of Visual Attention: A Critical Appraisal, Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007. Invited Talk Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K.,
Attention based on information maximization.
Journal of Vision,
7(9):950a,
2007. Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos., J.K., Attention based on Information Maximization, ICVS 2007 Workshop: From Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to Computer Vision, Bielefeld, 2007. Invited talk Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., A statistical basis for visual field anisotropies. CNS 2005, Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, July 17-21 2005, Madison, WI, USA. Poster Bruce, N.D.B., Features That Draw Visual Attention An Information Theoretic Perspective. CNS 2004, Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, July 18-20 2004, Baltimore, MD, USA. Poster I was one of three speakers and acted as session chair for at tutorial at ECCV 2008 entitled: Visual attention: biology, computational models, and applications. See the following link for more details. In summer of 2005 I taught a
course in C, Software Tools and UNIX: I have also assisted in the delivery of several courses in the capacity of a teaching assistant: SYDE
111 Calculus I
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