Dr. Julian Martin Fernandez
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Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical &
Chemical Engineering L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer
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Education:
Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of La Plata (Argentina) 1998.
Research Areas:
Visual Psychophysics and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Dr. Julian Martin Fernandez is currently a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. Dr. Fernandez is currently working on two main projects. The first is the psychophysics and neural modeling of human perception of structure from motion. The aim is to derive a theoretical understanding of visual object description that incorporates cues from multiple, possibly conflicting, information sources. In the models he has been creating, he has put a major emphasis on implementing physiological mechanisms and respecting their constraints. The second project is to model how the visual system learns to represent objects hierarchically. Most current models of object recognition are view-based, rather than parts-based, and the few existing parts-based models are often too simple to deal with the issue of how an object’s hierarchical structure is represented. The visual system probably uses a hybrid approach, in which the two methods, view-based and parts-based, both contribute. Dr. Fernandez has concentrated in developing a sophisticated parts-based model that is able to hierarchically represent objects and works with the help of existing view-based models. If, when fully implemented, the model works as expected, it will explain a range of data on human learning of object and scene structure significantly beyond the range explained by current models.
Visual Psychophysics Lab
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