Epernicus: Thomas Serre, Ph.D.

Thomas Serre, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Advisor:
Tomaso Poggio
Degrees:

Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

M.Sc., Computer Science, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne (Brest, France)

M.Sc., Signal Processing, University of Rennes 1 (Rennes, France)
Past Advisors:

Tomaso Poggio (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
biological and machine vision

My research seeks to understand the brain mechanisms underlying the recognition of objects and complex visual scenes using a combination of behavioral, imaging and physiological techniques, which are supported by rigorous computational models.

Communities:

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A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization.
Serre T, Oliva A, Poggio T

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Apr 10;104(15):6424-9
Robust object recognition with cortex-like mechanisms.
Serre T, Wolf L, Bileschi S, Riesenhuber M, Poggio T

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 2007 Mar;29(3):411-26
A quantitative theory of immediate visual recognition.
Serre T, Kreiman G, Kouh M, Cadieu C, Knoblich U, Poggio T

Progress in brain research. 2007;165:33-56

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