AUDE OLIVA Curriculum Vitae - Computational Visual Cognition ...

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

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AUDE OLIVA 

Curriculum Vitae 

Office : 617 452 2492 

Email : oliva@csail.mit.edu 

http://cvcl.mit.edu/aude.htm 

Status: Permanent Resident 

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Degrees 

1995 Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble, France 

1992 M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble, France 

1991 M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, University P.M. France, Grenoble, France 

1990 B.Sc. in Psychology (minor in Philosophy), Universite de Savoie, France 

1986 Baccalaureat in Mathematics & Physics, Academy of Grenoble, France 

Employment 

2012-‐ Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 

(CSAIL), MIT 

2011-‐ Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT 

2008-‐2012 Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 

2004-‐2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 

2002-‐2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State Uni., East Lansing, MI 

2002-‐2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, MSU, East Lansing, MI 

2000-‐2002 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ophthalmology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

1998-‐1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Image and Signal Processing, Institut National 

Polytechnique Grenoble, France 

1996 Postdoctoral Associate, Human Information Processing Laboratory, Advanced 

Telecommunications Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 

1995-‐1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 

External position held 

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011-‐2012 

Associate Editor, Seeing and Perceiving, 2010-‐2011 

Associate Editor, Perception, 2009-‐current 

Review editor, Frontiers in Perception Science, 2010-‐current 

NIH Peer review study sections: Central Visual Processing, 2010;Cognition and Perception, 2011, 2012; 

Sensory, Perception and Cognitive mechanisms, 2012 

NSF Peer review panels; 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 

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July 2012 Aude Oliva, Ph.D. Principal Research Scientist, CSAIL, MIT 

Scientific consultant for the art exhibition “Super-‐Vision”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2006 

Honors & Awards 

National Graduate Research Fellowship, Minister of Space & Research, French Government, 1992 

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Fyssen Foundation, Paris, France, 1997 

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Region Rhône-‐Alpes, French Government, 1998 

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006 

Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, School of Science, MIT, 2007 

Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, 2008 

Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, 2009 

Faculty Research Awards, Google, 2010, 2011 

Research contracts and grants 

NIH – NIMH, Perception and categorization of real-‐world scenes, 2003 – 2005 

MIT NEC funding for Research in Computers and Communication, The brain basis of scene perception, 2005 

– 2006 

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Information and Intelligent Systems, Recognition and 

Identification of Visual Scenes, 2006 – 2011 

National Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems: Integrating the local and global 

structure of natural scenes. 2007 – 2010 (with M. Lewicki) 

Seed Research Grant, Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain, Estimating the fidelity of perceptual and 

long-‐term visual memory in ASD. 2009 – 2010 

Research Award, Google, The Organization of Human Visual Knowledge, 2009 -‐ 2010 

National Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems – Computer Vision: Hierarchical scene 

understanding, 2010-‐2013 

National Eye Institute, R01: The gist of the space, 2011 -‐ 2015 

Research Award, Google, Predicting Image Memorability, 2012 -‐ 2013 

Andrea Bocelli Foundation, The MIT Fifth Sense Project: Providing the Functions of Vision to Blind People 

(PI: Teller, co-‐PIs: Glass, Livermore, Miller, Roy, Oliva, Torralba), 2012 -‐ 

Workshop and Symposium grants 

National Science Foundation, Workshops: Frontiers in Computer Vision, (PIs: Oliva & Yuille), August 2011 

(MIT); CVPR 2012 Providence; 2010-‐2012 

Army Research Office, Workshop: Frontiers in Computer Vision, (PIs: Oliva & Yuille), August 2011 (MIT), 

2011 

National Science Foundation, I-‐CRCNS Workshop: US-‐France collaboration in Computational Neuroscience, 

(PI: Oliva), November 2011 (Paris), 2011-‐2012 

Referred Journal Publications 

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Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A, & Oliva, A. (in press). Are real-‐world objects represented as bound 

units? Independent forgetting of different object details from visual memory. Journal of 

Experimental Psychology: General. 

Konkle, T. & Oliva, A. (2012). A real-‐world size organization of object responses in occipito-‐temporal cortex 

Neuron, 74 (6), 1114–1124. 

Konkle, T. & Oliva, A. (2012). Known Size Stroop effect: Real-‐world Size is an automatic property of object 

representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, (3), 561-‐ 

569. 

Park, S.J., Brady, T.F., Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2011). Disentangling scene content and scene layout: 

Complementary roles for the PPA and LOC in representing natural images. Journal of Neuroscience, 

31(4), 1333-‐1340. 

Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2011). Canonical visual size for real world objects. Journal of Experimental 

Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37(1), 23-‐37. 

Gagnier, K.M., Intraub, H., Oliva, A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2011). Why Does Vantage Point Affect Boundary 

Extension? Visual Cognition, 19:2, 234-‐257 

Laprevote, V., Oliva, A, Delerue, C., Thomas P., & Boucart, M. (2010). Patients with schizophrenia are 

biased toward low spatial frequency to decode facial expression at a glance. Neuropsychologia, 48, 

4164-‐4168. 

Konkle, T., Brady, T.F., Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2010). Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the 

role of categories in visual long-‐term memory. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1551-‐1556. 

Greene, M.R. & Oliva, A. (2010). High-‐Level Aftereffects to Global Scene Property. Journal of Experimental 

Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36(6), 1430-‐1442. 

Ross, M.G., & Oliva, A. (2010). Estimating perception of scene layout properties from global image features. 

Journal of Vision, 10, 2, 1-‐25. 

Konkle, T., Brady, T.F., Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports visual long-‐ 

term memory of real world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 139 (3), 558-‐578. 

Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Spatial Ensemble Statistics: Efficient Codes that can be Represented with 

Reduced Attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 7345-‐7350. 

Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Oliva, A., & Alvarez, G.A. (2009). Detecting changes in real-‐world objects: The 

relationship between visual long-‐term memory and change blindness. Communicative & 

Integrative Biology 2:1, 1-‐3. 

Ehinger, K. A., Hidalgo-‐Sotelo, B., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Searching for people in 900 scenes: A 

combined source guidance of eye movements. Visual Cognition, 17, 945-‐978. 

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2009). The briefest of glances: perceptual benchmarks of rapid scene 

understanding. Psychological Science, 20(4), 464-‐472. 

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2009). Recognition of natural scenes from global properties: Seeing the forest 

without representing the trees. Cognitive Psychology, 58(2), 137-‐179. 

Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High 

Fidelity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (38), 14325-‐14329. 

Boucart, M, Dinon, J.F., Despretz, P., Desmettre, T., Hladiuk, K., & Oliva, A. (2008). Recognition of facial 

emotion in low vision: A flexible usage of facial features. Visual Neuroscience, 25, 1-‐7. 

Brady, T. F., & Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical Learning using Real World Scenes: Extracting Categorical 

Regularities without Conscious Intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678-‐685. 

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Alvarez, G.A, & Oliva, A. (2008). The Precise Representation of Simple Ensemble Statistics Outside the 

Focus of Attention. Psychological Science. 19(4), 392-‐398. 

Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2007). The role of context in object recognition. Trends in Cognitive Science. 

11(12), 520-‐527. 

Serre, T., Oliva, A., & Poggio, T. (2007). A feed forward architecture accounts for rapid categorization. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (15), 6424-‐6429. 

Alvarez, G. A, Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Searching in Dynamic Displays: Effects of Configural and Spatial-‐ 

Temporal Predictability. Journal of Vision. 7(14),12,1-‐12. 

Oliva, A., Torralba, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2006). Hybrid Images. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph), 25, 

3, 527-‐532. 

Oliva, A. & Torralba, A. (2006). Building the Gist of a Scene: The Role of Global Image Features in 

Recognition. Progress in Brain Research: Visual perception, 155, 23-‐36, 2006. 

Torralba, A., Oliva, A., Castelhano, M., & Henderson, J.M. (2006). Contextual guidance of eye movements 

and attention in real-‐world scenes: the role of global features in object search. Psychological 

Review, 113, 766-‐786. 

Goffaux, V., Jacques, C., Mouraux, A., Oliva, A., Rossion, B., & Schyns. P.G. (2005). Diagnostic colors 

contribute to early stages of scene categorization: behavioral and neurophysiological evidences. 

Visual Cognition, 12, 878-‐892. 

Oliva, A., Wolfe, J. M, & Arsenio, H. (2004). Panoramic Search: The interaction of Memory and Vision in 

Search through a Familiar Scene. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and 

Performance, 30, 1132–1146. 

Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2003). Statistics of Natural Images Categories. Network: Computation in Neural 

Systems, 14, 391-‐412. 

Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2002). Depth estimation from image structure. IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine 

Intelligence, 24,1226-‐1238. 

Wolfe, J.M., Oliva, A., Horowitz, T. S, Butcher, S., & Bompas, A. (2002). Segmentation of Objects from 

Backgrounds in Visual Search Tasks. Vision Research, 42, 2985-‐3004. 

Wolfe, J.M., Oliva, A., Butcher, S., & Arsenio, H. (2002). An unbinding problem: the desintegration of visible, 

previously attended objects does not attract attention. Journal of Vision, 2(3), 256-‐271. 

Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2001). Modeling the Shape of the Scene: a Holistic Representation of the Spatial 

Envelope. International Journal in Computer Vision, 42, 145-‐175. 

Oliva, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2000). Diagnostic colors mediate scene recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 41,176-‐ 

210. 

Guerin-‐Dugue, A., & Oliva, A. (2000). Classification of Scene Photographs from Local Orientations features. 

Pattern Recognition Letters, 21,1135-‐1140. 

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1999). Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile: when categorization flexibly modifies the 

perception of faces in rapid visual presentations. Cognition, 69, 243-‐265. 

Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1997). Coarse blobs or fine edges? Evidence that information diagnosticity 

changes the perception of complex visual stimuli. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 72-‐107. 

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1997). Flexible, diagnostically-‐driven, rather than fixed, perceptually determined 

scale selection in scene and face recognition. Perception, 26, 1027-‐1038. 

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1994). From blobs to boundary edges: Evidence for time-‐ and spatial-‐scale-‐ 

dependent scene recognition. Psychological Science, 5, 195-‐200. 

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Habib, M., Gayraud, D., Oliva, A., Regis, J., Salomon, G., & Khalil, R. (1991). Effects of handedness and sex 

on the morphology of the corpus callosum. Brain & Cognition, 16, 41-‐61. 

Refereed conference proceedings 

Bainbridge. W, Isola, P., Blank, I., & Oliva, A. (2012). Establishing a Database for Studying Human Face 

Photograph Memory. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. 

Xiao, J., Ehinger, K., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2012). Recognizing Scene Viewpoint using Panoramic Place 

Representation. Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern 

Recognition. 

Isola, P., Parikh, D., Torralba, A., & Oliva. A. (2011). Understanding the Intrinsic Memorability of Images. 

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 

Isola, P., Xiao, J., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A (2011). What makes an image memorable? Proceedings of the 

24rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 145-‐152. 

Ehinger, K. A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Canonical views of scenes depend on the shape of the space. In L. Carlson, 

C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive 

Science Society (pp. 2114-‐2119). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Ehinger, K. A., Xiao, J., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Estimating scene typicality from human ratings and 

image features. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual 

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2562-‐2567). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Xiao, J., Hays, J., Ehinger, K. A., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2010). SUN Database: Large Scale Scene 

Recognition from Abbey to Zoo. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and 

Pattern Recognition (pp. 3485-‐3492), IEEE Computer Society. 

Hidalgo-‐Sotelo, B. & Oliva, A. (2010). Person, place, and past influence eye movements during visual 

search. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the 

Cognitive Science Society (pp. 820-‐826). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Normative representation of objects: evidence for an ecological bias in object 

perception and memory. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-‐Nine 

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (p 407-‐412), Nashville, TN: Cognitive Science 

Society. 

Alvarez, G. A, & Oliva, A. (2007). The Role of Global Layout in Visual Short-‐term Memory. Visual Cognition 

(Proceedings of OPAM), 15, 70-‐73. 

Greene, M.R. & Oliva, A. (2006). Natural scene categorization from the conjunction of ecological global 

properties. In R. Sun (Ed.). Proceedings of the Twenty-‐Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive 

Science Society, (p 291-‐296), Vancouver, B.C. 

Hidalgo-‐Sotelo, B., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2005). Human Learning of Contextual Priors for Object Search: 

Where does the time go? Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision 

and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) -‐ Workshops – 3, 86 -‐93. 

Oliva, A., Mack, M.L., Shrestha, M., & Peeper, A. (2004). Identifying the Perceptual Dimensions of Visual 

Complexity of Scenes. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.).Proceedings of the Twenty-‐Six 

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago. 

Oliva, A., Torralba, A. Castelhano, M. & Henderson, J. (2003). Top-‐Down control of visual attention in object 

detection. Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference Image Processing, vol. 1. (pp 253-‐256). 

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Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2002). Scene-‐centered description from spatial envelope properties. Lecture Note 

in Computer Science Series Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer 

Vision, Eds: H. Bulthoff, S.W. Lee, T. Poggio, & C. Wallraven. Springer-‐Verlag, Tuebingen, Germany 

(pp.263-‐272). 

Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (1999). Semantic Organization of Scenes using Discriminant Structural Templates. 

Proceedings of the International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV99), Korfu, Greece. (pp. 1253-‐ 

1258). 

Oliva, A., Torralba, A., Guerin-‐Dugue, A., & Herault, (1999). J. Global scene categorization from spectral 

templates. Proceedings of the Challenge of Image Retrieval, Newcastle. Electronic Workshop 

Computer Series, Springer-‐Verlag. 

Guerin-‐Dugue, A., & Oliva, A. Classification of natural images from distributions of local dominant 

orientations. (1999). Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 

Kangerlussaaq, Greenland, June 7-‐11. (pp 203-‐211). 

Oliva, A., Schyns, P.G., & Akamatsu. K. (1999). The role of color for face detection in a complex background. 

Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, HIP96-‐34 (pp.55-‐60). 

Herault, J., Oliva, A., & Guerin-‐Dugue, A. (1997). Scene Categorization by Curvilinear Component Analysis of 

Low Frequency Spectra. Proceedings of the European Symposium of Artificial Neural Networks, 

Bruges, Belgium. 

Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1996). Color influences fast scene categorization. Proceedings of the 18th Annual 

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (p 239-‐242), San Diego, California. 

Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1995). Mandatory scale perception promotes flexible scene categorizations. 

Proceedings of the17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (p 159-‐163). 

Chapters & Book Reviews 

Oliva, A. (in press). Scene Perception. Chapter in the New Visual Neurosciences, Eds John S. Werner and 

Leo. M. Chalupa. MIT Press. 

Oliva, A., Park, S.J., & Konkle, T. (2011). Representing, perceiving and remembering the shape of visual 

space. In Vision in 3D Environments, ed. L. R. Harris and M. Jenkin. Cambridge University Press. 

Oliva, A. (2010). Seeing and Thinking in the Mist (Book review). Science, 329, 1017. 

Oliva, A. (2009). Visual Scene Perception. In the Encyclopedia of Perception. Ed: Bruce Goldstein. Sage. 

Oliva, A. (2005). Gist of the scene. in the Encyclopedia of Neurobiology of Attention. L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. 

Tsotsos (Eds.), Elsevier, San Diego, CA (pages 251-‐256). 

Teaching Experience 

Michigan State University 

Cognitive Psychology (Undergraduate lecture course), Department of Psychology, Semester taught: Fall 

2003, Role: Sole instructor 

Basic Cognitive Processes (Graduate lecture course), Department of Psychology, Semester taught: Fall 

2003, Role: Sole instructor 

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Computational Visual Cognition (Graduate seminar), Department of Psychology and Department of 

Computer Science, Semester taught: Spring 2003, Role: Sole instructor 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

9.63. Laboratory in Visual Cognition (Undergraduate Lab, GIR, CI-‐M), Department of Brain and Cognitive 

Sciences, Semester taught: Fall 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. Role: Sole 

instructor 

9.77. Computational Perception (Undergraduate lecture course), Department of Brain and Cognitive 

Sciences, Semester taught: Fall 2009, Role: Sole instructor; Spring 2012, Role: Co-‐Instructor with 

Edward Adelson 

9.911. Fellowship Applications Seminar (Graduate seminar), Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 

Semester taught: Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Role: Co-‐instructor with Ki Goosens 

9.915. Computational Visual Cognition (Graduate seminar), Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 

Semester taught: Fall 2008, Role: Sole instructor 

9.915. Scene Understanding (Graduate seminar), Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Semester 

taught: Fall 2006, 2007, Role: Sole instructor 

9.94. Recognizing Real-‐world Scenes (IAP class), Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Semester 

taught: January 2005, Role: Sole instructor 

9.357. Special Topics in Vision: Texture and Image Statistics (Graduate seminar), Department of Brain and 

Cognitive Sciences, Semester taught: Fall 2004, Role: Co-‐ instructor with Edward Adelson 

Service 

Internal service 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computational Cognition faculty search committee, 2010 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate admission co-‐head (with James DiCarlo), Multi-‐ 

disciplinary section, 2010-‐2011 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chair of the sub-‐committee of Undergraduate Curriculum, 

2008-‐2011 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive faculty search committee, 2004-‐2009 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Presentation at the PARENTS week-‐end, 2008 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring, 2005-‐2012 

MIT, Liaison Program Office, Consultations for Honda, Nissan, Toyota, SAAB, Selex, BMW, Ford, Sharp, 

Microsoft, Hoya Optical, Siemens, Chanel, 2004-‐current 

External service 

National Science Foundation, CRCNS sponsored Workshop: US-‐France collaboration in Computational 

Neuroscience, Paris, November 2011. NSF-‐NIH CRCNS Grant Program created in August 2012 

MURI: Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Learning for Understanding Scenes and Events, 

Consultant, 2010-‐2015 

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National Science Foundation, and Army Research Office sponsored Workshop: Frontiers in Computer 

Vision, with A. Yuille, CSAIL 2011 

http://www.frontiersincomputervision.com 

SUnS: Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 

http://suns.mit.edu 

Program Committee Member, Cognitive Science Society Annual Meetings, 2007, 2008 

Gordon Research Conference “Sensory coding and the Natural Environment”, Ciocco, Session Chair, 2008 

Visual Science Society Workshop: Natural Scene Understanding: Statistics, Recognition and 

Representation, Sarasota, with L. Fei-‐Fei, 2007 

Program Committee Member, International workshop on attention in cognitive systems, India, 2007 

Program Committee Member, International workshop on attention and performance in computational 

vision, San Diego, 2005 

Annual Workshop on Object, Perception, Attention and Memory (OPAM), 2004, 2005 

Journal reviewing: Attention Perception & Psychophysics, ACM Applied Perception, Brain Research, 

Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Consciousness & Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Current Biology, 

Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Neuroscience, 

Journal of Vision, Memory & Cognition, Neuropsychology, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and 

Machine Intelligence, Perception, PloS Computational Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of 

Sciences, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychological Review, Psychological Belgica, Psychological 

Science, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Science, Seeing and Perceiving, Spatial Vision, 

Visual Cognition, Vision Research 

Conference reviewing. Articles: IEEE Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR); 

Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS). Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 

International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV), Siggraph. Abstracts: European Conference on Visual 

Perception, Visual Science Society Meeting, Cosyne 

Grant reviewing: National Science Foundation (Computer Vision, Computational Neuroscience, Social, 

Behavioral & Economic sciences), National Eye Institute, Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Israel 

Science Foundation 

Book/Encyclopedia proposal reviewing: Oxford University Press, MIT Press 

Ph.D Students Supervised 

Greene, Michelle, Ph.D (NSF fellowship). A global framework for scene recognition, 2009. Current: 

Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford . 

Hidalgo-‐Sotelo, Barbara, Ph.D. (NSF fellowship). Eye movement guidance in familiar visual scenes: a role for 

scene specific priors in search, 2010. 

Konkle, Talia (NDSEG and NSF Fellowships). Neural organization of object properties in the ventral visual 

cortex, Current: Postdoctoral fellow, Trento, Italy 

Brady, Timothy (NSF fellowship). Information coding in short term visual memory, Current: Postdoctoral 

fellow, Harvard 

Isola, Phillip (NSF Fellowship). Shape and image representation (Secondary advisor; Primary: Edward 

Adelson), in progress. 

Bainbridge, Wilma (NSF and NDSEG Fellowships). Spatial representation, in progress. 

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Postdoctoral Researchers Supervised 

Alvarez, George, 2005-‐2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 

Ross, Michael, 2007-‐2009. Computer Scientist, Whitehead Institute 

Boloix, Emmanuelle, 2007-‐2009. Postdoctoral researcher, CNRS Laboratory, Lille, France 

Soojin Park, 2008-‐2011. Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, John Hopkins University 

Invited Presentations 

Property-‐based representation of scene and space, Boston University, 2011 

Visual scene understanding, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, 2011 

Property-‐based representation of scene and space, Center for Brain Science, Harvard, 2011 

Visual scene understanding, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, 2011 

Visual scene understanding, The National Academies, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory 

Sciences, Washington, 2010 

Scene and object recognition by humans, Microsoft, New England, Cambridge, MA, 2010 

Visual scene understanding. Martinos Brain and Cognition Talks, Massachusetts General Hospital, 

Cambridge, 2010 

Human scene understanding, Advancing Computer Vision with Humans in the Loop (ACVHL), CVPR, San 

Francisco, 2010 

Visual scene understanding, Symposium “Looking at the Big Picture: Visual Processing of the Real World”, 

Association for Psychological Science, Boston, 2010 

Representing visual scenes with summary statistics, Visual Science Society Workshop, Naples, 2010 

Visual scene understanding, Psychological and Brain Sciences Department, Colloquium, John Hopkins 

University, 2010 

Visual scene understanding, National Science Foundation Workshop on Hybrid Neuro-‐Computer Vision, 

Columbia University, New York, 2010 

Visual scene understanding, CIFAR NCAP Meeting, Vancouver, 2009 

Visual scene understanding, Intelligence Initiative Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, 2009 

Holistic Visual Scene Recognition, Configural Processing Consortium 2009, Tufts University, 2009 

Holistic scene recognition, Center for Vision Research Conference on “Vision in 3D environments”, York, 

2009 

The fidelity and capacity of visual long term memory, Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Concordia 

University, 2009 

Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity, Seminar, Department of Psychology, Yale University, 

2009 

Visual Scene Recognition, the Thirteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems 

(ICCNS), Boston, 2009 

Visual Scene Recognition, Department of Psychology, Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2009 

Visual Scene Recognition, Invited speaker, MIT Museum Innovation Gallery, Symposium on “Photons, 

Neurons & Bits: Holography for the 21 st Century”, Boston, 2009 

Visual Scene Recognition, Invited speaker, Fyssen Foundation, Object Recognition, Paris, 2008 

The fidelity and capacity of visual long term memory, Seminar, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon 

University, Pittsburg, 2008 

The fidelity and capacity of visual long term memory, Colloquium Talk, Department of Psychology, 

Northeastern University, Boston, 2008 

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Scene and object recognition and memory, Workshop on Category-‐Level Object Recognition, Milan, 2008 

The fidelity of long term visual memory, Seminar, CNRS Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition, 

Toulouse, 2008 

Scene recognition and memory, Workshop on Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence, Austin, 2008 

Capacity and Limits of the Human Brain, Symposium “MIT in Japan”, Tokyo, 2008 

Gist of a scene, The Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, 2007 

Building the gist of the scene from spatial envelope properties, Visual Science Society Symposium on 

“Natural Scene Understanding: Statistics, Recognition and Representation”, 2007 

Gist of a Scene, Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, 2007 

Limits and Abilities of Human Visual Perception, Sharp Laboratories of American, WA, 2007 

Hybrid Images, Seminar, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 2007 

Seen/unseen, Seminar, Art Exhibition “Super-‐Vision”, the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, 2007 

Perceiving and attending the visual world: the efficiency and limits of human visual perception, MIT 

Technology and the Corporation Conference Series, Cambridge, 2006 

Perception of Scene Spatial Layout and Complex Visual Displays, Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle, 2006 

Subtleties of Image Manipulation, Ethics in Image Manipulation, Siggraph conference, Boston, 2006 

Role des primitives visuelles globales pour la reconnaissance d' object dans les scènes, CNRS Laboratory of 

Neurosciences fonctionnelles & pathologies, Lilles, 2006 

Investigating the Role of Top-‐Down Contextual Priors on Object Search in Real World Scenes, Brains & 

Machine Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge, 2006 

Scene Understanding, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2006 

Recognizing the Gist of the Scene, Symposium “The role of context in recognition”, European Conference 

on Visual Processing (ECVP), La Coruna, 2005 

The gist of the scene: recognizing the visual world on the fly, Seminar, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. 

Princeton, 2005 

The gist of the scene: recognizing the visual world on the fly, Seminar, Department of Brain and Cognitive 

Sciences, Rutgers University, 2005 

The gist of the scene: recognizing the visual world on the fly, Colloquium, Center for Visual Science, 

University of Rochester, 2005 

The gist of the scene: recognizing the visual world on the fly, Seminar, NMR, Massachusetts General 

Hospital, 2005 

The representation of visual complexity, Seminar, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 2004 

Scene representation: from image statistics to semantic coding, Seminar, Department of Brain and 

Cognitive Sciences, MIT, 2004 

Scene representation: from image statistics to semantic coding, Seminar, Department of Psychology, 

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004 

Recognition of the gist of the scene from spatial envelope properties, Symposium “Natural scenes”, 44th 

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. 2002 

Spatial and spectral regularities in scene recognition, Gordon Conference: "Sensory coding and the natural 

environment: Probabilistic models of perception". Mt Holyoke College, 2002 

Scene Recognition in Scale Space, Workshop on Scene Recognition, Max-‐Planck Institute, Tubingen, 1996 

Recognition of semantic properties of real-‐world scenes, Seminar, Department of Computer Science and 

Engineering, Michigan State University, 2002 

The gist of the scene: A model of the spatial envelope properties of real-‐world scenes, Department of 

Psychology, Harvard University, 2002 

The gist of the scene: A model of the spatial envelope properties of real-‐world scenes, Department of 

Psychology, Michigan State University, 2002 

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Representing the structure of environmental scenes: A holistic approach, Seminar, Department of 

psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2001 

Representation of the Scene Semantics, Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, 

Glasgow, 2000 

Scene recognition: role of spatial scale and color, Seminar, Department of Psychology, New York University, 

New York, 1998 

Scene recognition: role of spatial scale and color, Seminar, Nissan Cambridge Research Laboratory, 

Cambridge, 1998 

Tasks Constraints for Face Recognition, Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, 1998 

Scene Recognition: role of spatial scale and color, Seminar, Department of Psychology, Keele University, 

Keele, 1997 

Role of color for face detection in a complex background, Institute of Electronics, Information and 

Communication Engineers, Tokyo, 1997 

Selected Press Releases & Outreach 

Hybrid Images 

Scientific American Mind (Sept 2011), Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (2011), Universal Principles of 

Design, Lidwell et al. (2010), Mind, Special issue of Illusions (2010), Metro (Sweden, 2010), Derniere Heure 

(Canada: 2010); Live Magazine (UK, 2010), Wired magazine (UK, 2009; US, 2009), Scientific American (US: 

2008); Boston Globe (2007); Mente & Cervello (Italy, 2007), TV show Dreamvision, Nippon TV Network 

(Japan, 2007), Ca m’ interesse (France, 2007), Daily Star (UK, 2007), Scottish Daily Record (UK: 2007), The 

Camberra Times (Australia, 2007), Le Scienze (Italy, 2007), Quo (Spain, 2007), The Independent (UK, 2007), 

New Scientist (UK, 2007), Scientific American: Mind (US, 2006), Ca m’interesse (France, 2006) 

Museum Exhibition: MIT Museum of Science, Cambridge (2007 – current); the Exploratorium: the Museum 

of Science, Art and Human Perception, San Francisco (2003 – current); G.WIZ Science Museum, Sarasota 

(2007); Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany (2002); the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 

(1998) 

Visual long-‐term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details, PNAS 2008: Sensation & 

Perception, Wolfe et al. (2010), Discover Magazine -‐ Top 100 Science Stories of 2008 (2009), Scientific 

American (2009), LiveScience (2008), MIT TechTalk (2008), Video interview on sciencentral.com (aired on 

ABC, 2009) 

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