Stella X. Yu Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3961 617-552-8956 (office) 617-552-1970 (lab) 617-552-6790 (fax) syu at cs.bc.edu	Publications Postdoc, UC Berkeley Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition NSF CAREER Award Lab and Collabrators Postdoc Position Available

I am a vision scientist seeking a few simple right strokes in visual computation. An ancient Chinese manual of painting instructs art students as follows: Figures, even though painted without eyes, must seem to look; without ears, must seem to listen... These are things which ten hundred brushstrokes cannot depict but which can be captured by a few simple strokes if they are right. While computer vision research has made fruitful progress with the help of massive data and computing power, I am more interested in an alternative approach: studying art techniques and human vision to discover those few simple strokes that are essential for visual expression.

Art and Vision		Artificial Intelligence
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Human Vision	Computer Vision	Machine Learning
brightness perception	object matching	angular embedding
scene categorization	image segmentation	multiclass spectral clustering
change blindness	medical structure extraction	grouping with bias
understanding popout	inferring spatial layout	grouping with repulsion
saccadic suppression	object segmentation	Markov decision process