Yali Amit

Professor

Departments of Computer Science and Statistics

Senior Fellow

Computation Institute

Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Contact Information

University of Chicago
1100 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Statistics
Phone: (773)702-6614
Fax: (773)702-8487
amit@marx.uchicago.edu

Personal Homepage

http://galton.uchicago.edu/~amit

Research

Computer vision, image analysis and speech recognition: Object detection, recognition and model registration algorithms in digital images and acoustic data using hierarchies of templates. Applications to optical character recognition, zip code reading, face detection and recognition, automatic anatomy identification in medical images, detection and recognition of acoustic signals. Computational efficiency is emphasized. Statistical modeling and analysis of the data for understanding the performance of the algorithms.
Parallel and biologically plausible neural architectures for implementing these algorithms involving interactions with research on biological visual and acoustic pattern recognition.