Laurent Itti (born December 12, 1970 in

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) is a

computational neuroscientist Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematical models, computer simulations, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to u ...

. He received his MS in "Image Processing" from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris in 1994, and a

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from

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in 2000. He is currently an

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Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

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, and

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at the

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, where he has been since 2000. As a

student under the tutelage of Christof Koch, Itti developed a computer model that simulates

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mechanisms involved in the deployment of visual

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. This so-called saliency model has been cited by thousands of

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publications To publish is to make content available to the general public.Berne Conve ...

. The

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implementation of this model is part of the iLab Neuromorphic Vision Toolkit, which is freely distributed under the

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. Itti has also been very active in developing

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

applications, particularly in the context of

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s (both terrestrial and underwater) as well as in comparing model simulations to empirical measurements based on a wide spectrum of techniques, including eye tracking,

psychophysics Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, m ...

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, and

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. Itti is credited with authoring several dozens of

publications To publish is to make content available to the general public.Berne Conve ...

and 3

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. He also co-developed the Coregistration for Neuroimaging Systems

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, a suite of

tools for analyzing

data, which is routinely used by several hospitals and research labs in the

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and

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Books

*
Neurobiology of Attention
',

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, (2005),

References

External links

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