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Ruth Rosenholtz

Ruth Rosenholtz

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Computer Science

D-Index
38
Citations
8209
World Ranking
10060
National Ranking
4241

Overview

Ruth Rosenholtz is a researcher primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields of study including Computer Science and Neuroscience with substantial contributions to subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The research topics covered by Rosenholtz focus extensively on aspects of human visual perception and attention. Key topics include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Safety Warnings and Signage
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Their publication record includes papers in well-regarded venues, frequently contributing to the following journals:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Peripheral vision in real-world tasks: A systematic review" (2022) in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Toward a Theory of Visual Information Acquisition in Driving" (2020) in Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • "Demystifying visual awareness: Peripheral encoding plus limited decision complexity resolve the paradox of rich visual experience and curious perceptual failures" (2020) in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Visual Attention in Crisis" (2024) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "Superior Parietal Lobule: A Role in Relative Localization of Multiple Different Elements" (2020) in Cerebral Cortex

Rosenholtz collaborates frequently with other researchers, most notably Benjamin Wolfe, Vasha DuTell, Yelda Semizer, Christian Vater, and Simon Stent.

Best Publications

  • Measuring visual clutter.

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Yuanzhen Li;Lisa Nakano

  • Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects

    Patrick Baudisch;Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Capabilities and Limitations of Peripheral Vision.

    Ruth Rosenholtz

  • A summary statistic representation in peripheral vision explains visual search.

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Jie Huang;Alvin Raj;Benjamin J. Balas

  • Feature congestion: a measure of display clutter

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Yuanzhen Li;Jonathan Mansfield;Zhenlan Jin

  • Material perception: What can you see in a brief glance?

    Lavanya Sharan;Ruth Rosenholtz;Edward Adelson

  • A simple saliency model predicts a number of motion popout phenomena.

    Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Exploring features in a Bayesian framework for material recognition

    Ce Liu;Lavanya Sharan;Edward H. Adelson;Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Computing Local Surface Orientation and Shape from Texture forCurved Surfaces

    Jitendra Malik;Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Using thumbnails to search the Web

    Allison Woodruff;Andrew Faulring;Ruth Rosenholtz;Julie Morrsion

  • Visual search for arbitrary objects in real scenes

    Jeremy M. Wolfe;Jeremy M. Wolfe;George A. Alvarez;Ruth Rosenholtz;Yoana I. Kuzmova

  • Recognizing Materials Using Perceptually Inspired Features

    Lavanya Sharan;Ce Liu;Ruth Rosenholtz;Edward H. Adelson

  • Halo: a Technique for Visualizing Off-Screen Locations

    Patrick Baudisch;Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Rethinking the role of top-down attention in vision: effects attributable to a lossy representation in peripheral vision.

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Jie Huang;Krista A. Ehinger

  • Accuracy and speed of material categorization in real-world images.

    Lavanya Sharan;Ruth Rosenholtz;Edward H. Adelson

  • Search asymmetries? What search asymmetries?

    Ruth Rosenholtz

  • Iterative procedures for reduction of blocking effects in transform image coding

    Ruth Ellen Rosenholtz;Avideh Zakhor

  • More than the Useful Field: Considering peripheral vision in driving

    Benjamin Wolfe;Jonathan Dobres;Ruth Rosenholtz;Bryan Reimer

  • Do predictions of visual perception aid design

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Amal Dorai;Rosalind Freeman

  • A comparison of the use of text summaries, plain thumbnails, and enhanced thumbnails for Web search tasks

    Allison Woodruff;Ruth Rosenholtz;Julie B. Morrison;Andrew Faulring

  • Surface orientation from texture: Isotropy or homogeneity (or both)?

    Ruth Rosenholtz;Jitendra Malik

Frequent Co-Authors

Allison Woodruff
Allison Woodruff Google (United States)
Jitendra Malik
Jitendra Malik University of California, Berkeley
Ce Liu
Ce Liu Microsoft (United States)
Jeremy M. Wolfe
Jeremy M. Wolfe Brigham and Women's Hospital
George A. Alvarez
George A. Alvarez Harvard University
Patrick Baudisch
Patrick Baudisch Hasso Plattner Institute
Laure Pisella
Laure Pisella Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Chelsea Finn
Chelsea Finn Stanford University

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