Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2007-present Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. candidate in Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Advisor Ruth Rosenholtz

2004-2007 University of Edinburgh
2007 B.Sc. Psychology (Honours), Advisor James Brockmole

1999-2003 California Institute of Technology
2003 B.S. Engineering & Applied Science

Manuscripts

• Ehinger, K. A., & Oliva, A. (in prep). Canonical views of scenes.
• Xiao, J., Ehinger, K. A, Hays, J., Torralba, A., & Oliva. (in prep). A. SUN Database: Large-scale scene recognition from Abbey to Zoo.

Publications

• Xiao, J., Ehinger, K. A., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2012). Recognizing scene viewpoint using panoramic place representation. Proc. 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). [website] [pdf]
• Goujon, A., Brockmole, J. R., & Ehinger, K. A. (2012). How visual and semantic information influence learning in familiar contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [pdf]
• Rosenholtz, R., Huang, J., & Ehinger, K. (2012). Rethinking the role of top-down attention in vision: Effects attributable to a lossy representation in peripheral vision. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00013 [pdf]
• Ehinger, K. A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Canonical views of scenes depend on the shape of the space. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2114-2119). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf] [poster]
• Ehinger, K. A., Xiao, J., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Estimating scene typicality from human ratings and image features. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2562-2567). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf] [slides]
• Ehinger, K. A., & Altschuler, E. L. (2011). What did the early American presidents really look like? Gilbert Stuart portraits as a "Rosetta Stone" to the pre-photography era. Perception, 40(1), 91-94. [website] [pdf]
• Xiao, J., Hays, J., Ehinger, K. A., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2010). SUN Database: Large scale scene recognition from abbey to zoo. In Proc. 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 3485-3492. [website] [pdf]
• Judd, T., Ehinger, K., Durand, F., Torralba, A. (2009). Learning to predict where people look. In 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2106-2113. [website] [pdf]
• Ehinger, K. A.*, Hidalgo-Sotelo, B.*, Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Modeling search for people in 900 Scenes: A combined source model of eye guidance. Visual Cognition, 17, 945-978. [website] [pdf]
• Ehinger, K. A. & Brockmole, J. R. (2008). The role of color in visual search in real-world scenes: Evidence from contextual cueing. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(7), 1366-1378. [pdf]

Presentations

• Ehinger, K. A. & Rosenholtz, R. (2013). Texture statistics predict human performance on a range of scene-perception tasks. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 14, 2013. [poster]
• Ehinger, K. A. & Rosenholtz, R. (2012). Quantifying boundary extension in scenes. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 15, 2012. [poster]
• Ehinger, K. A., & Oliva, A. (2011). What determines the canonical view of a scene? Talk presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 8, 2011.
• Ehinger, K. A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Canonical views of scenes. Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium, Jan 28, 2011.
• Ehinger, K. A., Haggerty, K. M., & Oliva, A. (2010). Canonical views of scenes depend on the shape of the space. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, & Memory, Nov, 18, 2010. [poster]
• Ehinger, K. A., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2010). Building a taxonomy of visual scenes: Typicality ratings and hierarchical classification. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 9, 2010. [poster]
• Hays, J., Xiao, J., Ehinger, K. A., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2010). Scene categorization and detection: the power of global features. Talk presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 8, 2010.
• Ehinger, K. A., Hidalgo-Sotelo, B., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Modeling search for people in 900 Scenes: The roles of saliency, target features, and scene context. Talk presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 10, 2009. [slides]
• Ehinger, K. A.*, Hidalgo-Sotelo, B.*, Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Modeling search for people in 900 Scenes: A combined source model of eye guidance. Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium, Jan 30, 2009. [poster]
• Oliva, A., Ehinger, K. A., Hidalgo-Sotelo, B., & Torralba, A. (2009). Context rules supreme in visual search through real-world scenes. Talk presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium, Jan 30, 2009.
• Ehinger, K. A. (2008). Modeling sources of visual attention guidance in real-world  search. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Oct 21, 2008.
• Ehinger, K. A. & Oliva, A. (2008). Characterizing the shape and texture of natural objects using Active Appearance Models. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 11, 2008. [poster]
• Ehinger, K. A. & Brockmole, J. R. (2008). The role of color in real-world scene contextual cueing. Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium, Feb 1, 2008. [poster]

Teaching Experience

Spring 2012 - T.A., 9.77/9.777 Computational Perception, Instructors: Adelson, Oliva
Fall 2011 - T.A., 9.63 Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Instructor: Oliva
Fall 2010 - T.A., 9.63 Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Instructor: Oliva
Fall 2009 - T.A., 9.77 Computational Perception, Instructor: Oliva
Fall 2009 - T.A., 9.63 Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Instructor: Oliva
Spring 2009 - T.A., 9.00 Introduction to Psychology, Instructor: Gabrieli

Grants, Awards & Honors

2012 PEO Scholar Award
2009-2012 NSF Graduate Fellowship
2011 Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching
2010 Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2009 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award
2008 NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention
2007 Singleton Presidential Scholar, MIT
2007 Drever Prize, University of Edinburgh
2007 NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention

Media Coverage

Article in Science on the Perception paper, "What did the early American presidents really look like?"

Memberships in Professional Organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Vision Sciences Society

Departmental Service

2008-2009 BCS Graduate Representative