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Thomas Serre is a researcher affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, cognitive neuroscience, biophysics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research topics include visual attention and saliency detection, cell image analysis techniques, neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), machine learning in materials science, and domain adaptation and few-shot learning.

Among the recent papers authored by Thomas Serre are:

  • "Beyond the feedforward sweep: feedback computations in the visual cortex" (2020), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "Same-different conceptualization: a machine vision perspective" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family for human and machine learning" (2021), published in PhytoKeys
  • "How Good is your Explanation? Algorithmic Stability Measures to Assess the Quality of Explanations for Deep Neural Networks" (2022), published in the 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • "Superhuman cell death detection with biomarker-optimized neural networks" (2021), published in Science Advances

Thomas Serre frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Drew Linsley, Thomas Fel, Rémi Cadène, Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan, and Alekh Karkada Ashok.

Their publications appear regularly in various venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, and the 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Best Publications

  • HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition

    H. Kuehne;H. Jhuang;E. Garrote;T. Poggio

  • Robust Object Recognition with Cortex-Like Mechanisms

    T. Serre;L. Wolf;S. Bileschi;M. Riesenhuber

  • Object recognition with features inspired by visual cortex

    T. Serre;L. Wolf;T. Poggio

  • A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization

    Thomas Serre;Aude Oliva;Tomaso Poggio

  • A Biologically Inspired System for Action Recognition

    H. Jhuang;T. Serre;L. Wolf;T. Poggio

  • The Language of Actions: Recovering the Syntax and Semantics of Goal-Directed Human Activities

    Hilde Kuehne;Ali Arslan;Thomas Serre

  • A Theory of Object Recognition: Computations and Circuits in the Feedforward Path of the Ventral Stream in Primate Visual Cortex

    T. Serre;M. Kouh;C. Cadieu;U. Knoblich

  • Reading the mind's eye: Decoding category information during mental imagery

    Leila Reddy;Leila Reddy;Leila Reddy;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Thomas Serre;Thomas Serre

  • Hierarchical classification and feature reduction for fast face detection with support vector machines

    Bernd Heisele;Bernd Heisele;Thomas Serre;Sam Prentice;Tomaso A. Poggio

  • Automated home-cage behavioural phenotyping of mice

    Huei-Han Jhuang;Estibaliz Garrote;Xinlin Yu;Vinita Khilnani

  • A quantitative theory of immediate visual recognition.

    Thomas Serre;Gabriel Kreiman;Minjoon Kouh;Charles Cadieu

  • Component-based face detection

    B. Heiselet;T. Serre;M. Pontil;T. Poggio

  • A Component-based Framework for Face Detection and Identification

    Bernd Heisele;Thomas Serre;T. Poggio

  • What and where: a Bayesian inference theory of attention.

    Sharat Chikkerur;Thomas Serre;Cheston Tan;Tomaso Poggio

  • Deep Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

    Thomas Serre

  • Object decoding with attention in inferior temporal cortex

    Ying Zhang;Ethan M. Meyers;Narcisse Pascal Bichot;Thomas R. Serre

  • An end-to-end generative framework for video segmentation and recognition

    Hilde Kuehne;Juergen Gall;Thomas Serre

  • Categorization by Learning and Combining Object Parts

    Bernd Heisele;Thomas Serre;Massimiliano Pontil;Thomas Vetter

  • Realistic Modeling of Simple and Complex Cell Tuning in the HMAX Model, and Implications for Invariant Object Recognition in Cortex

    Thomas Serre;Maximilian Riesenhuber

  • Computer vision cracks the leaf code

    Peter Wilf;Shengping Zhang;Shengping Zhang;Sharat Chikkerur;Stefan A. Little;Stefan A. Little

  • Learning long-range spatial dependencies with horizontal gated-recurrent units

    Drew Linsley;Junkyung Kim;Vijay Veerabadran;Thomas Serre

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Kreiman
Gabriel Kreiman Harvard University
Rufin VanRullen
Rufin VanRullen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lior Wolf
Lior Wolf Tel Aviv University
Martin A. Giese
Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen
Maximilian Riesenhuber
Maximilian Riesenhuber Georgetown University Medical Center
Lisa M. Saksida
Lisa M. Saksida University of Western Ontario
Timothy J. Bussey
Timothy J. Bussey University of Western Ontario
Michael P. Coleman
Michael P. Coleman University of Cambridge
Joseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen Boston Children's Hospital

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