| Melissa Dominguez (Graduate Student ) |
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Contact:Melissa DominguezDepartment of Computer Science University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 email: melissad@cs.rochester.edu home: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/melissad vision: http://www.rochester.edu/research/vision/people/Melissa_Dominguez | |
About:Melissa is in her sixth year of the Computer Science Ph. D. program at the University of Rochester. She is interested in exploring developmental approaches to machine learning in artificial neural networks, with emphasis on computer vision problems such as stereopsis. | |
Research Interests:One of the most intriguing aspects of the human brain is that its abilities develop tremendously over the course of the life of its owner. A human infant is with extremely limited perceptual abilities, yet within a few years he has developed into a person with complex abilities far beyond those of the most advanced artificial intelligence program. I propose that studying the developmental process of the human visual system will provide useful insights for developing better learned computer vision systems. I present a machine learning system which applies theories from developmental psychology to the computer vision problem of stereopsis, and discuss further applications where human developmental data would be helpful in solving perceptual artificial intelligence problems. | |
Projects:Interaction Between Development and Learning of Binocular Disparity and Motion Velocity Sensitivies: The aim of this project is to shed light on whether the partial blindness of infants is helpful to the development of visual capabilities. | |
Publications:Visual Development Aids the Acquisition of Motion Velocity Sensitivities (Robert A. Jacobs and Melissa Dominguez )"Connectionist Models of Development" (Dominguez, M. and Jacobs, R.A.) "Connectionist Models of Development" (Melissa Dominguez and Robert A. Jacobs) Developmental Constraints Aid the Acquisition of Binocular Disparity Sensitivities (Melissa Dominguez and Robert A. Jacobs) Visual Development and the Acquisition of Binocular Disparity Sensitivities (Melissa Dominguez and Robert A. Jacobs) Visual Development Aids the Acquisition of Motion Velocity Sensitivities (Robert A. Jacobs and Melissa Dominguez ) | |