ViPER LAB


 
   
 

Zygmunt Pizlo

    Professor
    Department of Psychological Sciences
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy)
    Purdue University
    West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 >> city map
    email: pizlo at psych dot purdue dot edu
    Tel. (765) 494 6930
    Fax: (765) 496 1264
    Room #: PRCE 194

    I treat the human mind as an information processing system and I am interested in those cognitive functions that are computationally difficult, but are, nevertheless easy for humans. This includes 3D shape perception, figure-ground organization, problem solving etc. Who is to decide what computationally difficult is? The answer is usually straightforward: all ill-posed and ill-conditioned problems, as well as problems that belong to the class NP. When in doubt, check with your CS or EE colleagues and ask them whether existing machines can emulate a given cognitive function. Computationally easy cognitive functions are less interesting because (i) studying them is not likely to lead to new computational and mathematical insights, and (ii) it is guaranteed that there are already multiple models that can account for this function. Hence, even before you begin your research, you have to deal with model selection problem. The list of research problems on which I am working can be found in "Research" link.

    Book
    3D Shape: its unique place in visual perception, MIT Press.

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