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Shimon Ullman

Israeli computer scientist

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native_name	שמעון אולמן
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workplaces	Weizmann Institute of Science
alma_mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
thesis_title	The Interpretation of Visual Motion
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thesis_year	1977
doctoral_advisor	David Marr
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Dov Dori
Ellen Hildreth
Daniel Huttenlocher
Yael Moses
Leonid Peshkin
Amnon Shashua
Demetri Terzopoulos}} Shimon Ullman (; 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.

Education

He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977 advised by David Marr.

Research

He is the author of several books on the topic of vision, including High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition.

Ullman is the former head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute.

Awards and honours

Ullman was awarded the 2008 David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science. In 2014 he received the EMET prize in the field of computer science for his contributions to AI and computer vision.

In 2015 Ullman was awarded the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science.

In 2019 he won the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of computer vision.

He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.

References

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(1987). "Matters of Intelligence".
"Saliency map". scholarpedia.org.
Shimon Ullman, ''High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition'', [[MIT Press]], 1996.
link. (2014-08-26 , [http://rumelhartprize.org/ David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science] {{Webarchive). link. (2016-03-08 .)
[[The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture]]
"Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Recipient's C.V.".
[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Weizmann-Institute-professors-to-be-awarded-Israel-Prizes-392551 Weizmann Institute professors to be awarded Israel Prizes], [[The Jerusalem Post]], March 1, 2015
[[Azriel Rosenfeld Award]]

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