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Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin,TX 78712-0187

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 About Dana Ballard

My main research interest is in computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision. In 1985 Chris Brown and I led a team that designed and built a high speed binocular camera control system capable of simulating human eye movements. The system was mounted on a robotic arm that allowed it to move at one meter per second in a two meter radius workspace. This system has led to an increased understanding of the role of behavior in vision. The theoretical aspects of that system were summarized in a paper ``Animate Vision,'' which received the Best Paper Award at the 1989 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Currently I am interested in pursuing this research by using model humans in virtual reality environments. In addtion I am interested in models of the brain that relate to detailed neural codes. A position paper on this work appeared in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.