Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dendritic computation, biologically inspired vision algorithms, neural substrate for learning and memory.
Office: BHE 108
Phone: (213) 740-0334
Fax: (213) 740-1470
Email:
mel@usc.edu
Selected Publications
Mel, B.W. (1997) SEEMORE: Combining color, shape, and texture histogramming in a neurally-inspired approach to visual object recognition. Neural Comput., 9: 777-804.
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Mel, B.W., Ruderman, D.L., & Archie, K. (1998) Translation-invariant orientation tuning in visual `complex' cells could derive from intradendritic computations. J. Neurosci., 18: 4325-4334.
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Archie, K.A. & Mel, B.W. (2000) A model for intradendritic computation of binocular disparity. Nature Neurosci., 3: 54-63.
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Mel, B.W. & Fiser, J. (2000) Minimizing binding errors using learned conjunctive features. Neural Comput., 12: 247-278.
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Poirazi, P. & Mel, B.W. (2001) Impact of active dendrites and structural plasticity on the storage capacity of neural tissue. Neuron, 29: 779-796.
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Poirazi, P., Brannon, T. & Mel, B.W. (2003) Pyramidal neuron as 2-layer neural network. Neuron 37: 989-999.
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Hausser, M. & Mel, B.W. (2003) Dendrites: bug or feature. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 13: 372-83.
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Polsky, A., Mel, B.W. & Schiller, J. (2004) Computational subunits in pyramidal cell thin dendrites. Nature Neurosci. 7: 621-627.
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Chklovskii, D.B., Mel, B.W. & Svoboda, K. (2004) Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature, 7:782-788.
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