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Prof. dr. S. (Sennay) Ghebreab

Faculty of Science
Informatics Institute

Visiting address
  • Science Park 904
Postal address
  • Postbus 94323
    1090 GH Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Personal Information
  • Publications

    2022

    • Škorić, V., Sileno, G., & Ghebreab, S. (2022). Legality, Legitimacy, and Instrumental Possibility in Human and Computational Governance for the Public Sector. In Proceedings of the International Forum on Digital and Democracy, 2nd edition (IFDaD 2022) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3289). CEUR-WS.

    2018

    2017

    2016

    2015

    • Ramakrishnan, K., Scholte, H. S., Groen, I. I. A., Smeulders, A. W. M., & Ghebreab, S. (2015). Visual dictionaries as intermediate features in the human brain. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 8, [168]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2014.00168 [details]
    • Ramakrishnan, K., Scholte, H. S., Smeulders, A. W. M., & Ghebreab, S. (2015). Neural spatial consistency of hierarchical vision models. In NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning in Neuroimaging

    2014

    • Ramakrishnan, K., Groen, I. I. A., Scholte, H. S., Smeulders, A. W. M., & Ghebreab, S. (2014). Visual dictionaries in the Brain: Comparing HMAX and BOW. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2014): Chengdu, China 14-18 July 2014 Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2014.6890312 [details]

    2013

    • Alnajar, F., Gevers, T., Valenti, R., & Ghebreab, S. (2013). Calibration-Free Gaze Estimation Using Human Gaze Patterns. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision: ICCV 2013 : proceedings: 1-8 December 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia (pp. 137-144). Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.24 [details]
    • Groen, I. I. A., Ghebreab, S., Prins, H., Lamme, V. A. F., & Scholte, H. S. (2013). From image statistics to scene gist: evoked neural activity reveals transition from low-level natural image structure to scene category. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(48), 18814-18824. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3128-13.2013 [details]
    • Ramakrishnan, K., Groen, I., Scholte, S., Smeulders, A., & Ghebreab, S. (2013). Visual word representation in the brain. In MLINI '13: machine learning and interpretation in neuroimaging: proceedings of MLINI 2013 NIPS. [details]

    2012

    2011

    2010

    • Ghebreab, S., Smeulders, A. W. M., Scholte, H. S., & Lamme, V. A. F. (2010). A biologically plausible model for rapid natural scene identification. In Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, & A. Culotta (Eds.), 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009: December 7-10, 2009, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Vol. 1, pp. 629-637). (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; Vol. 22). Red Hook, NY: Curran. [details]

    2009

    • Scholte, H. S., Ghebreab, S., Waldorp, L., Smeulders, A. W. M., & Lamme, V. A. F. (2009). Brain responses strongly correlate with Weibull image statistics when processing natural images. Journal of Vision, 9(4), [29]. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.4.29 [details]

    2019

    • Scholten , N., Ghebreab, S., & de Waal, T. (2019). Civic Integration as a Key Pillar in Societal Resilience of Newcomers. Amsterdam: Foundation Civic. [details]

    2016

    • Ramakrishnan, K., Scholte, H. S., Smeulders, A., & Ghebreab, S. (2016). Mapping human visual representations by deep neural networks. Journal of Vision, 16(12), [373]. https://doi.org/10.1167/16.12.373 [details]

    2013

    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V., & Scholte, H. (2013). Two stages in the time-course of natural scene gist perception. Perception, 42(Suppl. 1), 161. [details]

    2022

    • Michailidis, D., Ghebreab, S., & Pascoal Dos Santos, F. P. (Accepted/In press). Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Transport Network Design through Reinforcement Learning.

    2013

    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V. A. F., & Scholte, H. S. (2013). Neural Dissimilarity of Scene Naturalness Maps Onto Low-Level Contrast Statistics. Abstract from 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, United States.
    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V. A. F., & Scholte, H. S. (2013). Two Stages in Scene Gist Perception. Abstract from 2013 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, United States.

    2012

    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V. A. F., & Scholte, H. S. (2012). Man-Made or Natural? Tracking Neural Processing of Scene Gist Using Single-Trial EEG.

    2015

    • Ramakrishnan, K., Scholte, S., Lamme, V., Smeulders, A., & Ghebreab, S. (2015). Convolutional Neural Networks in the Brain: an fMRI study. Journal of Vision, 15(12), [371]. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.12.371

    2014

    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V. A. F., & Scholte, S. (2014). Neural computation of scene gist with and without attention. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 884. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.884
    • Scholte, H. S., & Ghebreab, S. (2014). Improving computational models of early visual cortex using single image ERP data. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 886. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.886

    2010

    • Ghebreab, S., Scholte, H. S., Lamme, V., & Smeulders, A. (2010). Rapid Natural Image Identification Based on EEG Data and Global Scene Statistics. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 1394. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.1394
    • Groen, I., Ghebreab, S., Lamme, V., & Scholte, H. S. (2010). The role of Weibull image statistics in rapid object detection in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 992. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.992
    • Scholte, H. S., Ghebreab, S., Smeulders, A., & Lamme, V. (2010). Lateral Occipital cortex responsive to correlation structure of natural images. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 1363. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.1363
    • Scholte, H. S., Ghebreab, S., Smeulders, A., & Lamme, V. (2010). Lateral Occipital cortex responsive to local correlation structure of natural images. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Conference abstract(Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010). https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.03.00162 [details]

    Prize / grant

    • Ghebreab, S. (2010). FES COMMIT, € 285K, project title: ALAN.
    • Ghebreab, S. (2010). FES COMMIT, € 285K, project title: E-BioCognition.

    Membership / relevant position

    • Ghebreab, S. (2012). Member program committee neuroimaging, KNAW.
    • Ghebreab, S. (2010). Samenwerking Informatics Institute Prof. dr. A.W.M. Smeulders, Informatics Institute.

    Talk / presentation

    • Ghebreab, S. (invited speaker) (2013). Simple Visual Regularities Predict Perceptual and Emotional Responses to (Moving) Pictures, Neurotalk Conference, Xi’an, China. http://www.bitlifesciences.com/neurotalk2013/fullprogram.asp
    • Ghebreab, S. (invited speaker) (2012). Natural Image Statistics, Visual Perception and the Brain, Lecture, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
    • Ghebreab, S. (invited speaker) (2012). Natural Scene statistics predict neural and perceptual similarity of naturalistic image categories, SURF research day, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    • Ghebreab, S. (invited speaker) (2012). Predicting human response to film from visual contents: Studies in the links between computer vision and human response systems, How Movies Move Us Symposium, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
    • Ghebreab, S. (invited speaker) (14-10-2011). Computer vision meets human vision: how semantic and emotional content in pictures and movies can be traced back in the brain, 2011 NeuroInformatics.NL symposium, Den Haag.

    2017

    • Ramakrishnan, K. (2017). Aligning computer and human visual representations. [details]

    2022

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