Michel Brudzinski
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| Email: brudzm@rpi.edu |
| Phone: 202.251.9044 |
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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Michel Brudzinski is a doctoral student in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He works in the CogWorks Laboratory with advisors Dr. Wayne Gray and Dr. Michael Schoelles.
Mike grew up in Columbia, MD and received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, NH. Following college, he worked as a consultant and software engineer, specializing in enterprise Java development.
He received a Masters degree in Cognitive Psychology from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. From 2005 to 2007, Mike worked for Dr. Greg Trafton in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
Mike's principal research interest is the use of computational cognitive modeling to simulate human cognition. His current work is focused on measures of visual similarity. His other research interests include: embodied cognition, object recognition, declarative representation, memory for goals, and cognitive robotics.
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Publications
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Research Projects
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ObViS.
The ObViS (pronounced like obvious) research project involves the development and validation of measures of visual similarity. We predict that when searching for a particular target object, the similarity of low-level visual features of any given object to the features of the target object will be a better predictor of visual attention than the saliency of the object.
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