Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Tandra Ghose, PhD Contact Address: Building-57; Room 545, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Email: ghose@sowi.uni-kl.de tandra@berkeley.edu Phone: +49(0)176 / 7056-8030 (cell phone, Germany) +001-510-841-1311 (cell phone, USA) Web: http://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/psychology-of-perception Date of birth: 18 th January, 1978 Place of birth: Denmark Citizenship: American Legal status in Germany: Permanent resident Other: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) Research Interests: Cognitive Psychology, Visual Perception, Applied Perception. Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground Organization, Spatio-temporal Interpolation, and Depth Perception. Computational models of vision. Education 1997-2001 B. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 2001-2006 Ph.D. in Vision Science, Vision Science Program, University of California, Berkeley. December 2006 Advisors: Profs. Stephen Palmer (Psychology) and Jitendra Malik (Computer Science) 2004 M.S. Vision Science, UC Berkeley 1
Employment 2010 - present Junior Professor (tenure-track), TU, Kaiserslautern 2013 - present Project Advisor, DFKI, Kaiserslautern 2010 - present Consultant, MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Los Angeles 2007-2008 Summer 2007 Spring 2007 2001-2006 2001-2006 Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, UC Merced Visiting Researcher in Prof. M.H. Herzog s Lab EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology, University of Judaism, Los Angeles Graduate Student Instructor (Departments of Vision Science, Psychology, and Electrical Engineering) Graduate Student Researcher (Departments of Vision Science and Psychology) Research Books & Monographs: Tandra Ghose and Stephen E. Palmer (2008). The Role Played By Extremal Edges In Figure-Ground Organization Publisher: VDM Verlag, ISBN-13: 9783836484060 Journal Publications: 1) Banks, M.S., Ghose, T., and Hillis, J.M. (2004). Relative image size, not eye position, determines eye dominance switches. Vision Research, 44, 229-234. 2) Zhang, Z., Cantor, C., Ghose, T., and Schor, C.M. (2004). Temporal aspects of spatial interactions affecting stereo-matching solutions Vision Research, 44, 3183-3192. 3) Palmer, S.E. and Ghose, T. (2008). Extremal edges: A powerful cue to figure-ground and depth organization. Psychological Science 19(1):77-84. 4) Ghose, T. and Palmer, S.E. (2010). Extremal edges versus other Gestalt cues to figure-ground organization. Journal of Vision, 10(8): 3. 2
5) Ghose T., Liu, J. and Kellman, P.J. (2010). Measuring size of a never present object: Visual object formation through spatiotemporal interpolation In A. Bastianelli et al.(editors) Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics. 6) Ghose, T., Hermens, F., and Herzog, M.H. (2012). How the global layout of the mask influences masking strength. Journal of Vision, 12(13):9, 1 15, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/13/9 7) Ghose, T. and Liu, Z. (2013). Generalization between canonical and non-canonical views in object recognition. Journal of Vision, 13(1):1, 1 15, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/13/1/1 8) Hermens, F., Ghose, T., & Wagemans, J. (2013). Advance information modulates the global effect even without instruction on where to look. Experimental Brain Research, 226(4), 639-648, 10. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2fs00221-013-3480-x 9) Ghose, T., Liu, J., & Kellman, P. J. (2014). Recovering metric properties of objects through spatiotemporal interpolation. Vision Research, 102, 80-88. 10) Kellman, P. J., Mnookin, J. L., Erlikhman, G., Garrigan, P., Ghose, T., Mettler, E., Charlton, D., & Dror, I. E. (2014). Forensic comparison and matching of fingerprints: Using quantitative image measures for estimating error rates through understanding and predicting difficulty. PloS one, 9(5), e94617. Journal Publications (in preparation): 1) Tandra Ghose and Stephen E. Palmer (Under review). Gradient cuts: A cue to ground in figure-ground perception Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 2) Tandra Ghose and Stephen E. Palmer (in preparation). Effects of gradient edge alignments on figure-ground organization. 3) Tandra Ghose, Gennady Erlikhman and Philip J. Kellman (in preparation). Spatiotemporal object formation: Contour vs. surface interpolation 4) Tandra Ghose, Frouke Hermens and Johan Wagemans (in preparation). The effects of perceptual grouping on saccadic eye movements 5) Gennady Erlikhman, Tandra Ghose, and Philip J. Kellman (in preparation). Spatiotemporal Interpolation: Contour and surface affect stereoscopic depth perception 3
6) Yannik Schelske, Tandra Ghose, and Tom Breuel (in preparation). Information- Theoretic Efficiency of Reading: Counter-Evidence from Eye Movements 7) Gurjyot Singh, Gennady Erlikhman, Tandra Ghose, and Zili Liu (in preparation). Effects of perceived strength of illusory contours on tilt aftereffects. Talks: Perceptual Organization & Eye Movements o Alghero, ECVP, 2012 Slant Anisotropy o Florida, VSS 2003 Extremal Edges o UC Los Angeles 2006 (Host: Prof. Zili Liu) o EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2007 (Host: Prof. Michael Herzog) o UC Los Angeles 2008 (Host: Prof. Phil Kellman) o TU Kaiserslautern, Germany 2010 (Host: Prof. Thomas Lachmann) o KU Leuven, Belgium 2010 (Host: Prof. Johan Wagemans) o ECVP 2012, Alghero Italy (Invited talk in Symposium: 100 years of Gestalt) SpatioTemporal Interpolation o Malborough High Los Angeles 2010 (Host: Dr. Forsheith) o Fechner day, Padua, Italy, 2010 o INSERM, Strasbourg, France, 2010 (Host. Dr. Anne Giersch) o ECVP, Toulouse France, 2011 o University of Jena, Germany, 2011 (Host. Prof. Stefan Schweinberger) o University of Arizona, Phoenix, USA, 2012 (Host: Prof. Mary Peterson) o University of Giessen, Germany, 2013 (Host: Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner) o KU Leuven, Belgium 2013 (Host: Prof. Johan Wagemans) Object Perception o ECVP, Lausanne Switzerland, 2010 o VSS, Naples Florida, 2011 Visual Perception o UC Merced, 2007-2008, Guest Lecture in classes of Profs. Teenie Matlock, Yarrow Durham, Shawn Newsam Conference: 1) Ghose, T., Mura, K., & Huff, M. (2015) Canonical Viewpoints for Videos of Assembly Tasks VSS 2015, St.Pete s Beach, Florida 2) Suzuki, T., Schelske, Y., & Ghose T. (2015) Similarity of Low-Pass Filtered and Pixelated Images at Different Time Scales VSS 2015, St.Pete s Beach, Florida 3) Schelske, Y., & Ghose T. (2015) Effect of Exogenous Factors on Eye Movement-Based User Identification 4
VSS 2015, St.Pete s Beach, Florida 4) Ghose, T., & Peterson, M.A. (2014) Using Extremal Edge to Decouple Closeness and Shape in Figure-Ground Perception 5) Moses, R., Ghose, T., Erlikhman, G., & Kellman, P.J. (2014) Perceived Occlusion Velocity for Fully Visible and Fragmented Shapes 6) Mandal, S., Ghose, T., Schelske, Y., Chiu, E., & Spivey, M.J. (2014) Using Eye Movements to Investigate Individual Differences in Linguistically Mediated Visual Search 7) Suzuki, T., Schelske, Y., & Ghose T. (2014) Dissociating Semantic and Pragmatic Information in Eye Movement Data for Image Processing Tasks 8) Schelske, Y., Ghose T., & Breuel, T.M. (2014) Using RSVP and Eye Movement Recording to Determine Usefulness of Information Content Definitions as Predictor for Reading Speed 9) Mura, K., Ghose, T., & Peterson, M.A. (2014) Context Effects on Figure-Ground Perception with Both Convexity and Extremal Edge Cues 10) Schelske, Y., Ghose T., & Schweinberger, S. (2014) Age discrimination between static and dynamic occluded faces ECVP 2014, Belgrade, Serbia 11) Ghose, T., Mandal, S., & Palmer, S.E. (2014) Direction of eye movement biases perceived grouping ECVP 2014, Belgrade, Serbia 12) Ghose T., (2013). [Organizer of Symposium] Synergistic Human Computer Interaction (HCI) ECVP 2013, Bremen, Germany 13) Ghose T., Erlikhman G., Garrigan, P., Kellman, P.J., Mnookin, J., Dror, I., and Charlton, C., (2013). Perception, Image Processing and Fingerprint-Matching Expertise ECVP 2013, Bremen, Germany 14) Ghose T., and Wagemans, J., (2013). The influence of figure-ground organization on saccadic eye-movements ECVP 2013, Bremen, Germany 15) Schelske, Y., Ghose T., Sassi, M., and Wagemans, J., (2013). Comparison of manual and fixation reaction time for non-accidental properties in contours ECVP 2013, Bremen, Germany 16) Schelske, Y., Ghose T., and Breuel, T.M., (2013). Linear Relation between Information Content and Reading Time: Counter-Evidence from Eye-Movements ECEM 2013, Lund, Sweden 17) Ghose T., Hermens, F., and Herzog, M., (2013). 5
How the global layout of the mask influences masking strength VSS 2013, Naples Florida 18) Erlikhman G., Ghose T., Garrigan, P., Kellman, P.J., Mnookin, J., Dror, I., and Charlton, C., (2013). Fingerprint Matching Expertise and its Determinants VSS 2013, Naples Florida 19) Ghose T., Hermens, F., and Wagemans, J., (2012). [Talk Abstract] The influence of perceptual grouping by proximity and good continuation on saccadic eye movements ECVP 2012, Alghero, Italy 20) Singh, G., Erlikhman G., Ghose T., and Liu, Z. (2012). Effects of perceived strength of illusory contours on tilt aftereffects ECVP 2012, Alghero, Italy 21) Ghose T., Hermens, F., and Wagemans, J., (2012). The Effects of Perceptual Grouping on Saccadic Eye Movements VSS 2012, J Vis August 13, 2012 12(9): 1294; doi:10.1167/12.9.1294 22) Erlikhman G., Ghose T., and Kellman, P.J. (2012). Contours and Surfaces Affect Stereoscopic Depth Perception in Dynamically Specified Displays Journal of Vision, 11(11):892, doi:10.1167/11.11.892 VSS 2011, Naples Florida 23) Singh, G., Erlikhman G., Ghose T., and Liu, Z. (2012). Tilt aftereffects with orientations defined by motion or subjective contours VSS 2012, J Vis August 13, 2012 12(9): 882; doi:10.1167/12.9.882 24) Ghose T. and Palmer, S.E. (2012). [Talk Abstract]. Shading gradients, depth, and figure ground perception: Extremal edges and gradient cuts TEAP 2012, Mannheim, Germany 25) Ghose T., and Wagemans, J., (2012). [Organizer of Symposium] Experimental methods in perceptual organization TEAP 2012, Mannheim, Germany 26) Ghose T., Erlikhman G., and Kellman, P.J. (2011). Spatiotemporal object formation: Contour vs. surface interpolation [Talk Abstract]. ECVP 2011, France, Perception 40 Abstract Supplement, page 59 27) Ghose T. and Liu, Z. (2011). View propagation in internal object memory representation [Talk Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 11(11):892, doi:10.1167/11.11.892 VSS 2011, Naples Florida 28) Erlikhman G., Ghose T., and Kellman, P.J. (2011). Spatiotemporal contour interpolation in four dimensions Journal of Vision, 11(11):892, doi:10.1167/11.11.892 VSS 2011, Naples Florida 29) Ghose T., Erlikhman G., and Kellman, P.J. (2011). A study of unit formation under conflicting information from contour vs. surface- based processes for spatiotemporal interpolation OPAM 2011, Seattle, USA. 30) Ghose T., and Kellman, P.J. (2011). [Talk Abstract]. Visual object formation through spatiotemporal interpolation TEAP 2011, Halle, Germany. 31) Ghose T. and Liu, Z. (2010). [Talk Abstract]. 6
Generalization between canonical and noncanonical views in object recognition ECVP 2010, Switzerland, Perception 39 Abstract Supplement, page 11 32) Ghose T., Liu, J. and Kellman, P.J. (2010). Measuring size of a never present object: Visual object formation through spatiotemporal interpolation [Talk/Conference paper] Fechner day 2010, Padova, Italy In A. Bastianelli et al., Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics. 33) Ghose T., Liu, J. and Kellman, P.J. (2009). Recovering metric object properties through spatiotemporal interpolation: What is the size of an object that is never present in the stimulus? Vision Science Society, Naples, Florida 2009. 34) Ghose T. and Palmer, S.E. (2008). Edge alignment effects for gradient cuts in figure-ground organization Journal of Vision, 8(6):1013, 1013a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/1013/, VSS 2008. 35) Palmer, S.E. and Ghose T. (2007). Extremal Edges dominate other cues to figure-ground organization. [Talk Abstract]. Psychonomic Society (48 th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA) 36) Ghose T. and Palmer, S.E. (2007). Shading gradients and figure-ground organization. ECVP, Azzero Italy. 37) Ghose T. and Palmer, S.E. (2007). Gradient cut alignment: A cue to ground in figure-ground and depth perception. Journal of Vision, 7(9):903, 903a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/903/, VSS 2007. 38) Palmer, S.E. and Ghose T. (2006). Extremal Edges dominate other cues to figure-ground organization. [Talk Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 96a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/96/, VSS 2006. 39) Ghose, T., and Palmer, S.E. (2005). Surface convexity and extremal edges in depth and figure-ground perception. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 970a, http://www.journalofvision.org/5/8/970/, VSS 2005. 40) Ghose, T., Hillis, J.M., Watt, S.J., Landy, M.S. and Banks, M.S. (2003). Slant anisotropy and tilt-dependent variations in stereo precision. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 80a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/80/, VSS 2003. 41) Zhang, Z., Ghose, T., and Schor, C.M. (2003). Temporal limit of the smoothness constraint for binocular matching Journal of Vision, 3(9), 319a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/319/, VSS 2003. 42) Ghose, T., Banks, M. S., and Hillis, J. M. (2002). Eye dominance changes with eye position and image magnification. Journal of Vision, 2(7), 326a, http://journalofvision.org/2/7/326/, VSS 2002. Dissertation Research Research Advisor: Prof. Stephen E. Palmer and Prof. Jitendra Malik Institution: Vision Science Program and Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Extremal Edges: A powerful cue to Depth & Figure-Ground Organization Extremal Edges (EEs) are viewpoint-specific tangent points of self-occlusion on smoothly curved, convex surfaces. A simple ecological analysis of viewpoint constraints shows that the curved surface producing an EE is likely to be closer to the observer than the surface on the other, non-ee side of the contour. We have empirically tested the 7
effectiveness of EE as a cue to depth & figure-ground organization. My dissertation is available from http://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/wcms/fileadmin/wpsy/public/fgo/fgo.htm Professional Membership Vision Science Society (VSS, USA) Association for Psychological Science (APS, USA) International Society of Psychophysics European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP, Europe) Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen (TEAP, Germany) Configural Processing Consortium Awards and Honors European Union's Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2011-2015) Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Los Angeles (2008-2010) University Regent s Fellowship, UC Berkeley (Fall 2003) University Block Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley (Fall & Spring, 2001 & 2002) Sangeeta Goel Memorial Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1997) for securing the best position among female candidates entering the institute Teaching Interests and Experience Mentoring Katharina Mura, Yannik Schelske, Graduate students at Uni-KL Gennady Erlikhman, Graduate student at UCLA (2009-2012) Johanna Giro, Jedrzej Pelka, Tobias Otto, Undergraduate students and Uni-KL Janelle Liu, Math & Science Honor's Research, Malborough High School, Los Angeles 2008-09 Jennifier Yong, Honor s Contract for Department of Neuroscience, UCLA, Fall 2008 Courses taught as Instructor Spring 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 Perception TU, Kaiserslautern, Germany Winter 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Cognitive Psychology TU, Kaiserslautern, Germany Winter 2010 Psychology 120A: Cognitive Psychology University of California, Los Angeles, CA 8
Spring 2009 Psychology 120A: Cognitive Psychology University of California, Los Angeles, CA Co-teaching with Dr. Alan Castel Fall 2008 Psychology 124B: Visual Information Processing University of California, Los Angeles, CA Spring 2008 Psychology 001: Introduction to Psychology Cognitive Science 140: Perception Cognitive Science 144: Animal Cognition University of California, Merced, CA Supervisors: Profs. Will Shadish, Teenie Matlock and James Ortez Fall 2007 Psychology 001: Introduction to Psychology Cognitive Science 130: Cognitive Neuroscience Psychology 131: Social Psychology University of California, Merced, CA Supervisors: Profs. Will Shadish, Teenie Matlock and James Ortez Spring 2007 Psychology 245: Physiological Psychology, American Jewish University formerly University of Judaism Los Angeles Chair: Prof. Susan Kapitanoff Courses taught as Graduate Student Instructor (UC Berkeley) Psychology 1: General Psychology (Prof. A.P. Shimamura) Cognitive Science 126: Perception (Prof. S.E. Palmer) Cognitive Science 100: Basic Issues in Cognitive Science (Prof. J.L. Brooks) Molecular and Cell Biology 61: Brain, Mind, and Behavior (Prof. D. Presti) Psychology 119: Drugs, Brain, and Behavior (Prof. D. Presti) Vision Science 217: Oculomotor Functions and Neurology (Prof. C.M. Schor) Vision Science 219: Binocular Vision and Space Perception (Prof. M.S. Banks) EECS 40: Introduction to Microelectronics (Prof. O. Florescu) References 1. Prof. Stephen E. Palmer, PhD Contact Address: Palmer Visual Perception Lab B-50 Tolman Hall Department of Psychology 9
UC Berkeley CA 94720 Phone number: (510) 642 7135 Email: palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu 2. Prof. Philip Kellman, PhD Contact Address: Franz Hall 2349 Department of Psychology UC Los Angeles CA 90095 Phone number: (310) 825 4202 Email: kellman@cognet.ucla.edu 3. Prof. Thomas Lachmann, PhD Contact Address: Department of Psychology II Faculty of Social Science Building 57, TUKL 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Phone number: +49 (0)63 205 5032 Email: lachmann@rhrk.uni-kl.de 10