Eyegorithm, with its partner company BurningEyeDeas, has created a team of best minds on the leading edge of vision science and hypermedia technology. Committed to a “team science” model of collaboration, these companies recognize that the most complex problems require expertise across fields. Their core team is the right mix of expertise, complementary skills and enough difference in approach to create a powerful dynamic.

Who better to spearhead hyperimage technology than pioneer in hypertext, Roger Gregory? Cofounder of Project Xanadu, Gregory’s work is integral to an early conception of hypertext that inspired the World Wide Web. He works alongside leading scientist, Lauren Barghout, whose leaps and innovations forge a new AI approach to image technology. Zoran Kurtovic, adds to the mix with his experience in complex systems, an uncanny ability to see problems from the broadest perspective, and “get the math right.” Both Kurtovic and Barghout have long partnered and collaborated with researcher and writer, Ana DaSilva. With her ability to clarify, spot gaps and flaws in logic, and build a framework for generating ideas, she is essential to the team.

 

Lauren Barghout M.S. Ph.D.


Dr. Lauren Barghout pioneered the use of fuzzy set theory for representing psychological visual “Gestalts”, and applied these novel techniques by inventing TurboMask, an Adobe Photoshop plugin that automated the clipping of subject from a photograph. She co-founded Paravue Corporation in 2004, which began alpha testing TurboMask in 2007. After Paravue Corporation's demise, she founded BurningEyeDeas LLC and began a series of research projects investigating the science that underlies the technology of both BurningEyeDeas and EyeGorithm. She has authored 6 pending patent applications in automated image segmentation, image labeling, and image search.

Lauren holds a Bachelors degree in Physics from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in Vision Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research has contributed to the understanding of context-dependent spatial vision, spatial masking, theoretical computational psychophysics, perception and the application of fuzzy set theory to human vision. In addition to her science education, she is enrolled in the Business Administration Certificate program administered by Haas Business School, UC Berkeley.


Roger Gregory
One of the earliest pioneers of hypertext, Roger Gregory’s work on project Xanadu laid the foundation on which modern information technology – especially the World Wide Web – is based. As founder, CEO, CTO and Chairman of the Board of Xanadu, Gregory led design and implementation of hypertext technologies, such as fine-grained, bidirectional links and quotable/editable documents with version control and tracking of intellectual property rights and royalties. He now serves on as open source coordinator and board member for Udanax Hypertext Systems. Gregory brings to the team creative vision, rigor, as well as over 30 years of industry experience in hypermedia technology.

Zoran Kurtovic Ph.D.
Dr. Zoran Kurtovic earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry, with an emphasis on statistical mechanics and computer simulation of complex systems, from University of California at Berkeley. He has since worked at numerous software companies as a software developer and research scientist, including Infoscape, Ruby Networks, Collaborative Computing, Recursion Videolab and Paravue Corporation. He also worked on Sigmaplot at Systat. Zoran brings to team breadth and depth of vision, complex system analysis and mathematical rigor.

Analucia DaSilva
Ana DaSilva has a background in research, writing and other knowledge work. She has a BA in English from Bard College and an MA in writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. She has collaborated with Barghout and Kurtovic on computer vision research, and was Director of Intellectual Property at Paravue Corporation. She brings to the team a sense of clarity, with an eye on the broad context of concepts to ensure cohesion, and strong intellectual, research and writing skills.

Advisors

Eyegorithm & BurningEyeDeas also benefit from a team of stellar advisors from the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. The team of advisors includes Christopher Tyler, Director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye research Institute Brain Imaging Center, and his associate, vision scientist, Dr. Lora Likova .

Christopher Tyler Ph.D.

With over a decade of joint collaboration, Dr. Christopher Tyler and Dr. Lauren Barghout have applied techniques from electrical engineering and physics to complex problems of vision science. In fact, Christopher taught Lauren from her initial days as a young physicist how to “think and question” like a true psychophysicist who views perception as the physics of information signals processed on biological “wet-wear” (brain, eyeballs and nerves).

Christopher invented the autosterogram, pictures which appear to magically leap into full 3D scenes after viewing them for a few minutes. He heads the Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center, is a director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, sits on the program committee of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophtomology and reviews and edits for most of the major publications in the field. As the other of dozens research publications, Christopher Tyler brings expertise in depth perception, computational psychophysics, neuroscience and perception experimentation through the study of art history.

Lora Likova Ph.D.
Lora is both a research scientist and inventor, She has been awarded patents in Bulgaria, Russia and the Czech Republic. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at the New Bulgarian University and a Masters of Science in the Technical University, Sofia Bulgaria. She has authored numerous scientific publications perception, stereo-motion and cognitive neuroscience. Lora brings the ability to spot conflicting visual cue information often present in 3D movies and explain them “spot on” to rapt non-scientists.

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