Barbara Hidalgo-Sotelo
 

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Biographical Info:

I am a second-year graduate student interested in studying issues pertaining to high-level vision, particularly how implicit and explicit expectation-driven visual exploration (context) contributes to scene understanding and exploration. I would like to combine empirical studies of human behavior with computational modelling of attention to discover how the visual system creates and utilizes associations between elements in a scene (objects, their layout, scene background).

I moved to Boston in August of 2004 from Austin TX, where I was born and raised. A product of the Austin public school system, I pursued undergraduate degrees in engineering and biology at the University of Texas. Following graduation I worked in the lab of Dr. Robin Gutell, where I aided in ongoing research in comparative RNA sequence and structure analysis using tools of computational biology and bioinformatics. Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D in Cognitive Science at MIT.

As the oldest of two daughters from two wonderful parents, I have been very fortunate throughout the course of my life. Providing a solid education for all children is requisite for the social, scientific, and economic progress of this society, and it is toward this objective that I would like to contribute.

 

2nd-year Graduate Student
Computational Visual Cognition Laboratory
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Aude Oliva

 

Research Interests
     »  Scene perception and memory
            •   Role of context representations of the visual environment
     »   Visual Attention in real-world scenes
     »   Eye movement control

Publications

Hidalgo-Sotelo B, Oliva A, Torralba A (2005). Human Learning of Contextual Priors for Object Search: Where does the time go? Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Attention and Performance at the International Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego CA. [paper]

Presentations

Kenner N, Hidalgo-Sotelo B, Oliva A (May 2005). Rapid Goal-Directed Exploration of a Scene: The Interaction of Contextual Guidance and Salience. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL. [poster]

Human Learning of Contextual Priors for Object Search: Where does the time go? Talk at the 3rd Workshop on Attention and Performance at the International Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego CA.

Fellowships

Picower-Leventhal Presidential Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2005
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
B.S. Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2003

Affiliations

Computational Visual Cognition Lab
Alumni of the Dean's Scholars Program at University of Texas (Austin)

Contact Info

Email-
bhs@mit.edu

Mailing Address-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Av.
Building NE-20, Room 451D
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone-
Lab: 617.258.9675

 

Last Updated: 07/14/2005