Office of Naval Research

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

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Principal Investigator

• Song-Chun Zhu Professor of Statistics and Computer Science UCLA Director of the UCLA Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy Research Interest: Computer Vision, Statistical Learning, Cognition, AI, Robot Autonomy

Members in the US

• Martial Hebert Professor of Robotics Carnegie Mellon University Director of the CMU Robotics Institute Research Interest: Computer Vision, Robotics and AI

• Abhinav Gupta Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University Research Interest: Computer Vision and Lifelong learning

• Nancy Kanwisher Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Research Interest: Cognitive Neuroscience

• Josh Tenenbaum Professor of Computational Cognitive Science Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Research Interest: Cognitive modeling for perception, learning, and reasoning in humans and machine

• Derek Hoiem Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Interest: Computer Vision, Scene Parsing and Learning

• Brian Scholl Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Yale University Director of the Yale Perception & Cognition Laboratory Research Interest: Perception of Causality, Animacy, and Intentionality

• Tao Gao Assistant Professor of Statistics and Communication UCLA Research Interest: Social Perception and Cognition

• Noah D. Goodman Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, and Linguistics Stanford University Director of the Stanford Computation & Cognition Lab Research Interest: Computational Models of Cognition

Members in the UK

• Philip Torr Professor of Engineering University of Oxford Research Interest: Computer Vision and Machine Learning

• Philippe Schyns Professor of Visual Cognition University of Glasgow Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology Research Interest: Rapid Scene Perception, Task-dependent categorization

• Andrew Glennerster Professor of Visual Neuroscience University of Reading Research Interest: 3D Scene Perception in high-fidelity immersive reality

• Ales Leonardis Chair Professor of Robotics University of Birmingham Co-Director of Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre Research Interest: Computer Vision, Compositional Modeling, and Cognitive Robotics