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Gabriel Diaz

Associate Professor

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science

585-475-6215

Gabriel Diaz

Associate Professor

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science

Education

BFA, Skidmore College; MS, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bio

Dr. Diaz studies the visual guidance of action. How is it that visual information is used to guide movements of the body when performing everyday actions, like catching a ball, or driving a car? He investigates using a variety of techniques and equipment, including computational modelling, eye-tracking, virtual reality, and motion capture.

 

Currently Teaching

IMGS-211
3 Credits
This course introduces the principles of probability and statistics that are used in imaging science. The first half of the course covers probability distributions for discrete and continuous random variables, expectation, variance, and joint distributions. The second half of the course will consider point estimation, statistical intervals, hypothesis testing, inference, and linear regression.
IMGS-221
3 Credits
This course presents an overview of the organization and function of the human visual system and some of the psychophysical techniques used to study visual perception.
IMGS-599
1 - 4 Credits
This course is a faculty-directed tutorial of appropriate topics that are not part of the formal curriculum. The level of study is appropriate for student in any of their years of study.
IMGS-620
2 Credits
This course describes the underlying structure of the human visual system, the performance of those structures and the system as a whole, and introduces psychophysical techniques used to measure them. The visual system's optical neural systems responsible for collecting and detecting spatial, temporal, and spectral signals from the environment are described. The sources and extent of limitations in the subsystems are described and discussed in terms of the "enabling limitations" that allow practical imaging systems.
IMGS-699
0 Credits
This course is a cooperative education experience for graduate imaging science students.
IMGS-790
1 - 6 Credits
Masters-level research by the candidate on an appropriate topic as arranged between the candidate and the research advisor.
IMGS-799
1 - 4 Credits
This course is a faculty-directed tutorial of appropriate topics that are not part of the formal curriculum. The level of study is appropriate for student in their graduate studies.
IMGS-890
1 - 6 Credits
Doctoral-level research by the candidate on an appropriate topic as arranged between the candidate and the research advisor.
IMGS-891
0 Credits
Continuation of Thesis

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  • January 31, 2022

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    AI research collaboration begins

    Cecilia Alm, an associate professor in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, was awarded nearly $2 million by the National Science Foundation to lead a team of RIT faculty addressing a lack of diversity in the artificial intelligence research community and gaps in AI curricula.