Arnulf B.A. Graf

Postdoctoral Scholar

California Institute of Technology
Division of Biology
1200 E. California Blvd., MC 216-76
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Telephone: +1 626 395 8332
Telefax: +1 626 795 2397
E-mail: graf@vis.caltech.edu

Curriculum Vitae [full version pdf]

• Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany (2004)


• M.S. in Fluid Dynamics at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2000)


• M.S. in Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland (2000)

Journal articles

• A.B.A. Graf and J.A. Movshon. Encoding and decoding the direction of motion from neuronal populations in macaque area MT. In preparation.


• A.B.A. Graf, A. Kohn, M. Jazayeri, and J.A. Movshon. Decoding the activity of neuronal populations in macaque primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 14:239-245, 2011. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf, O. Bousquet, G. Rätsch, and B. Schölkopf. Prototype classification: Insights from machine learning. Neural Computation, 21:272-300, 2009. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf, F.A. Wichmann, H.H. Bülthoff, and B. Schölkopf. Classification of faces in man and machine. Neural Computation, 18:143-165, 2006. [pdf]


• O. Gonzalez, A.B.A. Graf, and J.H. Maddocks. Dynamics of a rigid body in a Stokes fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 519:133-160, 2004. [pdf]


• G. Vogel, A.B.A. Graf, J. von Wolfersdorf, and B. Weigand. A novel transient heater-foil technique for liquid crystal experiments on film cooled surfaces. ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 125:529-537, 2003. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf, A.J. Smola, and S. Borer. Classification in a normalized feature space using Support Vector Machines. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 14(3):597-605, 2003. [pdf]

Reviewed conference proceedings

• F.A. Wichmann, A.B.A. Graf, E.P. Simoncelli, H.H. Bülthoff, and B. Schölkopf. Machine learning applied to perception: Decision images for classification. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pages 1489-1496. MIT Press, 2005. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf and F.A. Wichmann. Insights from machine learning applied to human visual classification. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 16, pages 905-912. MIT Press, 2004. [pdf]


• C. Wallraven, B. Caputo, and A.B.A. Graf. Recognition with local features: The kernel recipe. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), volume 2, pages 257-264. IEEE Press, 2003. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf and F.A. Wichmann. Gender classification of human faces. In Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV), LNCS 2525, pages 491-501. Springer, 2002. [pdf]


• H.H. Bülthoff, C. Wallraven, and A.B.A. Graf. View-based dynamic object recognition based on human perception. In IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), volume 3, pages 768-776. IEEE CS Press, 2002. [pdf]


• G. Vogel, A.B.A. Graf, and B. Weigand. Film cooling: A comparative study of different heaterfoil configurations for liquid crystals experiments. In ASME TURBO EXPO, volume GT-2002-30552, 2002. [pdf]


• A.B.A. Graf and S. Borer. Normalization in Support Vector Machines. In Pattern Recognition (DAGM), LNCS 2191, pages 277-282. Springer, 2001. [pdf]

Doctoral dissertation

• A.B.A. Graf. Classification and feature extraction in man and machine. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2004. [pdf]