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Laurent Itti received his M.S. degree in Image Processing from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris, France in 1994, and his Ph.D. in Computation Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California in 2000. He has held positions as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the fields of Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. His research interests focus on biologically-inspired computational vision, particularly in areas such as visual attention, scene understanding, control of eye movements, and surprise. He has contributed significantly to basic research as well as technological applications including video compression, target detection, and robotics. Dr. Itti has co-authored 150 publications across peer-reviewed journals, books, conferences, and patents, and has developed open-source neuromorphic vision software toolkits. His research summary includes computation neuroscience and theory of computation.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Holding positions as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the fields of Computer Science and Psychology.
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