David Waltz

David L. Waltz ( born May 28, 1943 in Boston, † March 22, 2012 in Princeton ) was a computer scientist who worked in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine vision, machine learning and information retrieval. He was most recently a professor at Columbia University.

He developed the Waltz algorithm for recognizing three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional line art with shadows, and the problem is formulated as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem.

Works (selection)

  • Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows, Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT, 1972.
  • Understanding line drawings of scenes with shadows, in The Psychology of Computer Vision, PH Winston ( Ed. ), 1975
  • Toward memory- based reasoning (PDF, 5.3 MB ), ( with C. Stanfill ), Communications of the ACM, v29n12, pp. 1213-1228, 1986.
  • Massively parallel parsing: A 'strongly interactive model of natural language interpretation (PDF, 1.4 MB ), ( with J. Pollack ), Cognitive Science, v9n1, pp.. 51-74, 1985.
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