Jack Benton Gabbert

The Benton Report: A Response

Stephen Benton Chairman Departmental Committee on Graduate Studies

We formulate the segmentation task as a search for a set of descriptions which minimally encodes a scene. Descriptions can represent many image formation processes, including shape functions, texture generators, and illumination models. We develop a cooperative robust estimation framework that can estimate the parameters and segmentation of a set of descriptions, together with a modified Hopfie...

Developmental prosopagnosia and the Benton Facial Recognition Test.

The Benton Facial Recognition Test is used for clinical and research purposes, but evidence suggests that it is possible to pass the test with impaired face discrimination abilities. The authors tested 11 patients with developmental prosopagnosia using this test, and a majority scored in the normal range. Consequently, scores in the normal range should be interpreted cautiously, and testing sho...

An Identity of Jack Polynomials

In this work we give an alterative proof of one of basic properties of zonal polynomials and generalised it for Jack polynomials

Jack Horner

assess their own thought processes in an internal dialogue similar to reasoned debate among group members; and to represent features of the world, not just as your perspective or my perspective, but as objectively true, as facts. Evolutionary psychology is a crowded market. There’s no shortage of books telling a story about how chimp-like ancestors turned into modern humans. A Natural History o...