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Overview

Dana H. Ballard is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including Neuroscience and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as:

  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies
  • Sports Performance and Training

Ballard has contributed to multiple recent papers, reflecting their research interests. Selected publications include:

  • "Atari-HEAD: Atari Human Eye-Tracking and Demonstration Dataset," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "The Hierarchical Evolution in Human Vision Modeling," 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science
  • "Computational Modeling: Human Dynamic Model," 2021, Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • "Humans use minimum cost movements in a whole-body task," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Machine versus Human Attention in Deep Reinforcement Learning Tasks," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors include Ruohan Zhang, Mary Hayhoe, Lijia Liu, Sihang Guo, and Joseph L. Cooper. Collaboration with these researchers underlines a consistent engagement with topics related to visual cognition and human movement dynamics.

Ballard's publications appear in a variety of venues, among the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Their research combines experimental and computational methods to investigate how humans perceive and interact with their environment, especially emphasizing eye movements, attention mechanisms, motor control, and adaptation processes.

Best Publications

  • Color indexing

    Michael James Swain;Dana H. Ballard

  • Generalizing the hough transform to detect arbitrary shapes

    D. H. Ballard

  • Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects.

    Rajesh P.N. Rao;Dana Harry Ballard

  • Computer vision

    Dana Harry Ballard;Christopher M. Brown

  • Connectionist models and their properties

    J. A. Feldman;D. H. Ballard

  • Animate vision

    Dana H. Ballard

  • Eye movements in natural behavior.

    Mary Myleen Hayhoe;Dana Harry Ballard

  • Eye guidance in natural vision: reinterpreting salience.

    Benjamin W. Tatler;Mary Myleen Hayhoe;Michael F. Land;Dana Harry Ballard

  • Finding circles by an array of accumulators

    Carolyn Kimme;Dana Ballard;Jack Sklansky

  • Cortical connections and parallel processing: structure and function

    Dana H. Ballard

  • Reinforcement learning with selective perception and hidden state

    Andrew Kachites Mccallum;Dana Ballard

  • Indexing via color histograms

    M.J. Swain;D.H. Ballard

  • Task and context determine where you look

    Constantin A. Rothkopf;Dana Harry Ballard;Mary Myleen Hayhoe

  • Parallel visual computation

    Dana H. Ballard;Geoffrey E. Hinton;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • Learning to Perceive and Act by Trial and Error

    Steven D. Whitehead;Dana H. Ballard

  • What you see is what you need.

    Jochen Triesch;Dana H. Ballard;Mary M. Hayhoe;Brian T. Sullivan

  • Strip trees: a hierarchical representation for curves

    Dana H. Ballard

  • Active perception and reinforcement learning

    Steven D. Whitehead;Dana H. Ballard

  • Eye movements in iconic visual search.

    Rajesh P.N. Rao;Gregory J. Zelinsky;Mary Myleen Hayhoe;Dana Harry Ballard

  • Task Constraints in Visual Working Memory

    Mary M. Hayhoe;David G. Bensinger;Dana H. Ballard

  • Modular learning in neural networks

    Dana H. Ballard

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajesh P. N. Rao
Rajesh P. N. Rao University of Washington
Chen Yu
Chen Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Jerome A. Feldman
Jerome A. Feldman University of California, Berkeley
Gregory J. Zelinsky
Gregory J. Zelinsky Stony Brook University
Peter Stone
Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin
Jack Sklansky
Jack Sklansky University of California, Irvine
William H. Merigan
William H. Merigan University of Rochester
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Benjamin W. Tatler
Benjamin W. Tatler University of Aberdeen
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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