Merrielle Spain
Research
I am a Computation and Neural Systems Ph.D. Candidate advised by Prof. Pietro Perona at Caltech. I research both human and computer vision. Specifically, I'm interested in which objects humans attend to in complex natural scenes. In viewing these images, a large group of people will fixate and name certain objects earlier and more often than other objects. Automatically detecting the important objects in an image could aid image collection browsing, unsupervised learning, image retargeting for adaptive image display, automatic image cropping, region based image retrieval, advertising design, and object recognition. My work is supported by an NSF graduate research fellowship.
Publications
Measuring and predicting object importance,
Merrielle Spain and Pietro Perona,
in the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2010
[PDF | The final publication is
available at www.springerlink.com | BibTeX]
@article{spainPerona10,
Author = {Merrielle Spain and Pietro Perona},
Journal = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
Title = {Measuring and predicting object importance},
Year = {2010}}
Tunable Color Filters Based on Metal-Insulator-Metal Resonators,
Kenneth Diest, Jennifer A. Dionne, Merrielle Spain, and Harry A. Atwater,
in Nano Letters, 2009
[PDF | BibTeX]
@article{diestEt09,
Author = {Kenneth Diest and Jennifer A. Dionne and Merrielle Spain and Harry A. Atwater},
Journal = {Nano Letters},
Title = {Tunable Color Filters Based on Metal-Insulator-Metal Resonators},
Year = {2009}}
Some objects are more equal than others: measuring and predicting importance,
Merrielle Spain and Pietro Perona,
in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008
[PDF | BibTeX]
@inproceedings{spainPerona08,
Author = {Merrielle Spain and Pietro Perona},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision ({ECCV})},
Title = {Some objects are more equal than others: measuring and predicting importance},
Year = {2008}}
Objects predict fixations better than early saliency,
Wolfgang Einhauser*, Merrielle Spain*, and Pietro Perona,
in the Journal of Vision, 2008
[PDF | BibTeX]
@article{einhauserSpainPerona08,
Author = {Wolfgang Einhauser and Merrielle Spain and Pietro Perona},
Date-Modified = {2008-11-21 18:32:47 -0800},
Journal = {Journal of Vision},
Number = {14},
Pages = {1-26},
Title = {Objects predict fixations better than early saliency},
Url = {http://journalofvision.org/8/14/18/},
Volume = {8},
Year = {2008}}
