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Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College.[2] Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.[3]
Ellen Hildreth | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Marr–Hildreth algorithm |
| Spouse | Eric Grimson[1] |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wellesley College |
| Thesis | The Measurement of Visual Motion (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shimon Ullman |
She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]
She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[5] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[4]
Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.[1]
- Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)[6]
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