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Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel
About Shimon Ullman
- Shimon Ullman (????? ?????, born January 28, 1948 in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
- Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines.
- Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visual saliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention.
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