Nathan Moroney
Location: (Palo Alto, CA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/mostly_color/archive/2009/06/02/computer-innovation-fellows-project-in-computational-categorization.aspx
Keywords: computational categorization, color imaging, web-based experiments
Posted on: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Graphics / Visualization, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
This year I am pleased to announce that HP Labs in Palo Alto, California is an option for CIFellows. To support this participation, I have posted this offer to mentor in the area of computational categorization in the area of color imaging.
Specifically, I am interested in the application of machine learning, statistical pattern recognition or natural computation techniques to a sizeable, diverse and growing collection of web-derived ground truthing databases for color imaging. This research thread is of fundamental significance given that “categorization of sensory inputs is the nexus between perception and cognition.”(1) The research thread also has basic applied implications, such as machine color naming or online tools derived from web-based visual experiments.(2)
Potential CIFellows should be multi-disciplinary researchers with an interest in computational categorization and topics such as:
* adversarial machine learning,
* mutual boostrapping,
* advanced color image processing,
* applied corpus linguistics,
* web-based software tools,
By way of additional background, I am a principal scientist in the Print Production Automation Lab and have been with HP for almost 15 years. I have had productive collaborations with students and researchers from around the world. Finally HP Labs in Palo Alto is a world-class industrial research laboratory in the center of silicon valley within easy driving distance to San Francisco, Napa Valley, Yosemite national and many other sites of interst.
(1) D.J. Freedman, M. Riesenhuber, T. Poggio, E.K. Miller, “Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex”, Science, v. 291, p. 315 (2001).
(2) N. Moroney, “Thousands of Online Observers is Just the Beginning”, HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2009-59, (2009).
