Ellen Hildreth

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Ellen Hildreth
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forMarr–Hildreth algorithm
SpouseEric Grimson[1]
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Cognitive science
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellesley College
ThesisThe Measurement of Visual Motion (1983)
Doctoral advisorShimon Ullman

Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College.[2] Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.[3]

She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[5] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[4]

Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.[1]

Selected works

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  • Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)[6]

References

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