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research interestswhen we look out into the world, we don’t see arbitrary patches of color, we ‘see’ people, trees, roads and buildings. how do we ‘know’ what’s in front of our eyes? what are the mechanisms translating the light hitting our retina into a rich, subjective perception of reality? i'm investigating these questions through the avenues of human and computer vision. experiments with humans give us greater insight into the cortical processes at play and computational modeling gives us a test-bed for our understanding. my specific interests lie in high level vision: object and scene recognition, 3D shape perception, segmentation. My advisor is Professor Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley. here's a link to my CV. below is information about past and on-going work: |
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a recent project investigating how top-down influences such as memory and past experience combine with bottom-up cues like texutre and contour to mediate 3D shape perception. we're currently writing up this study for publication. | ||
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Understanding Rapid Category Detection via Multiply Degraded Images. Published in the Journal of Vision, 2009. | ||
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| Nandakumar, C., Torralba, A., & Malik, J. (2009). Interaction of contour, shading and texture in natural images [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):59, 59a | |||
| Nandakumar, C., & Malik, J. (2008). Rapid object category detection in visually degraded stimuli [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):511, 511a | |||
| Nandakumar, C., Gorlin, S., & Sinha, P. (2006). The role of the periphery in directed search for natural objects [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6):461, 461a | |||
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