ZUCKER, Steven - Department of Computer Science, Biomedical Enginnering, Yale University

Steven Zucker pioneered Canadian interdisciplinary vision science and is its most internationally influential scientist. His research spans computational vision and visual neuroscience, and his demonstration of how brains (and machines) solve real information processing tasks is pathbreaking. His introduction of differential geometry formalized vision algorithms. By abstracting biological function into mathematical structure, he predicted anatomical connections in the primate brain. Together his theories provide the new standard for vision science.