John Tsotsos

John K. Tsotsos
Born	September 3, 1952
Nationality	Canadian
Fields	Computer Vision
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Doctoral advisor	John Mylopoulos H. Dominic Covvey Steven W. Zucker
Website http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~tsotsos/Tsotsos/Home.html

John Tsotsos is a Canadian Computer Scientist whose research focuses on the field of Computer Vision. He is best known for his work in visual attention, specifically for establishing the need for visual attention through an argument from computational complexity^[1] and subsequently developing a computational framework for neuronal attention known as the Selective Tuning model.^[2] He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Computer Vision at York University^[3] and served as the Director of the Centre for Vision Research at York University from 2000-2006.^[4] He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2010.^[5]

Publications

• A Computational Perspective on Visual Attention, MIT Press, (2011), ISBN 978-0-26-201541-7
• Neurobiology of Attention, Academic Press, (2005), ISBN 978-0-12-375731-9

References

1. "Analyzing vision at the complexity level"
2. "Modeling visual attention via selective tuning"
3. Canada Research Chair Profile
4. Homepage of John K. Tsotsos
5. The Royal Society of Canada

External links

• Homepage of John K. Tsotsos
• Tsotsos Laboratory for Active and Attentive Vision
• Computational foundations for attentive processes, Scholarpedia article by John K. Tsotsos
• Computational models of visual attention, Scholarpedia article by John K. Tsotsos