von der Malsburg, Christoph
Computational Neurobiology
Dr. Malsburg received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg
in 1970. From 1974 to 1987, he was a Senior Member of the Scientific Staff of
the Department of Neurobiology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical
Chemistry. He joined USC in 1988 and is now Professor of Computer Science and
Neurobiology.
His research interests involve: (1) computational studies of the formation of maps and feature detectors in the nervous system; (2) development, application and experimental verification, both neurobiological and computational, of the dynamic link architecture, which uses changes in synaptic connectivity to conduct pattern processing as well as long-term storage; (3) problems in vision including invariant representation and recognition of objects, implementation of low-level vision problems in dynamic link architecture, and presentation of scenes in hierarchical nets. Other problems in neural networks include spatial coordinate representation, adaptive coordination between different (e.g., visual-motor) coordinate systems, and the representation and generation of motor patterns in neural nets.
Selected Publications:
- von der Malsburg, C. (1983) How are nervous structures organized? In Synergetics of the Brain, Proceeding of the International Symposium on Synergetics, E. Basar, H. Flohr, H. Haken, and A.J. Mandell (Eds.), Springer, pp. 238-259.
- Wang, D., Buhmann, J. and von der Malsburg, C. (1990) Pattern segmentation in associative memory. Neural Computation, 2:94-106.
- Buhmann, J., Lades, M., and von der Malsburg, C. (1990) Size and distortion invariant object recognition by hierarchical graph matching, Proceedings of the IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego 1990, pp. II,411-416.
- von der Malsburg, C. (1990) Network self-organization, In An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks, S.F. Zornetzer, J. Davis, and C. Lau, (Eds.), Academic Press, pp. 421-432.
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