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James L. Crowley earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981. From 1980 to 1985 he was a research scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. In 1985, he moved to Grenoble, where he assumed the position of Professor at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble (INPG). He teaches courses in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at the elite ENSIMAG school of computer science and applied mathematics. He currently directs the INRIA project PRIMA,
Within the Laboratory (UMR) GRAVIR at the INRIA Rhône Alpes Research Institute in Montbonnot France. Professor Crowley directs the project PRIMA which has as its goal the development of techniques for observation of human action, with applications to interactive environments and man-machine interaction. The PRIMA group currently participates in several European Projects including IST Project DETECT, IST Project CAVIAR, IST Project FAME, FET Disappearing Computer Initiative Projet GLOSS, and the research network FGNet. He is director of research planning for the European thematic Network on Cognitive Vision : ECVision. James Crowley is co-founder of Blue-Eye Video, which markets systems and software for tracking and recognition activity of human activity. Current research interests include perception of human activity for context aware computing, new forms of man-machine interaction, and appearance based methods for real time computer vision.
Professor Crowley has edited two books, four special issues of journals, and over 140 articles on vision and mobile robotics. Since 1985 he has directed 21 doctoral dissertaions, co-edited 2 books, been the author or co-author of 30 Papers published in international Journals, has been author or co-author of 105 papers published in International Scientific Conferences, and served as external examiner for 93 doctoral examinations in 12 countries. He ranks number 1525 in the CiteSeers top 10K most cited authors in Computer Science - May 2003 (ResearchIndex).
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From 1989 to 1992, he worked for France Telecom Research (formerly CNET - CCETT). He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1992 from Rennes University. He is currently with the Institut EURECOM, Multimedia Communications dept., Sophia Antipolis, France, as a Professor; and with the University of California, Santa Barbara, ECE dept., SCL Lab., as a Visiting Researcher.
His research interests currently include Image Processing and Coding, Facial
Image Analysis, Security (Watermarking and Biometrics) & Virtual Imaging
(Talking Heads).
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He is a senior member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Multimedia
Signal Processing Technical Committee and an associate editor for IEEE
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Ph.D. Computer Science, The University of Michigan, 1990
M.S.E. Electrical Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1984
B.S.E. Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude), The University of Michigan, 1984
Diploma in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, 1978
Research interests include computer vision
(dynamic vision, color, object recognition), computational multimodal language
analysis, human computer interaction, medical imaging and visualization, video
analysis for multi-media database access, and robot navigation.
Rahul Sukthankar's current research focuses on computer vision and machine
learning: calibration and interactive applications for projector-camera systems;
face and character recognition; object discovery; nearest-neighbor algorithms
with non-metric similarity functions; cross-validation and model selection. His
earlier work includes autonomous navigation for intelligent vehicles, traffic
simulation, agent architectures and information extraction in text.
Rahul Sukthankar is a senior staff researcher at Intel Research Pittsburgh and
adjunct faculty (Robotics) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
He was previously at HP/Compaq's Cambridge Research Lab and at Just Research.
Rahul received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1997, and his B.S.E. summa cum laude in
computer science from Princeton in 1991.
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Dr. Vladimir Uskov's areas of expertise include Web-Based Education (Web-lecturing technology, multimedia streaming technologies), Distance Education, Applications of Information Technologies in Education, Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Computer Aided Design. He has more than 210 professional publications, including 3 textbooks and 4 book chapters. Dr. Uskov received numerous grants in his areas of expertise from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Microsoft Corp., International Science Foundation, and various governmental institutions. Currently, Dr. Uskov is a principal investigator of the NSF project # 0196015 on Web-Based Education (2000-2004), and co-principal investigator of the NSF project # 9950029 (1999-2003) on Advanced Technological Education in Information Technology. Dr. Uskov also serves as an international expert for the "Swiss Virtual Campus" project (Switzerland). Dr. Vladimir Uskov is a general chair of the international conference on Web-Based Education (WBE-2002, Cancun, Mexico; WBE-2003, Rhodes, Greece; WBE-2004, Innsbruck, Austria; WBE-2005, Las-Vegas, USA). He is also a member of editorial boards of 3 international referred journals on Web-based education. Dr. Uskov is a member of the Executive Board of the IEEE LTTF, member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, AACE, IASTED and the International Academy on Information Networking. Multiple details are available at Dr. Uskov's web site at: http://www.interlabs.bradley.edu/uskov
Dr. Vladimir Uskov received his PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow Aviation Institute - Technical University, Moscow, Russia where he was involved in the research on computer aided design systems. Between 1980 and 2003, he taught regular academic courses at Moscow Aviation University (Russia), Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Russia), Michigan State University, University of Cincinnati and Bradley University (USA). Currently he is a professor of computer science and information systems and a co-director of the InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University. As a visiting professor, Dr. Uskov taught courses and performed research at various universities of Holland, Germany, France, and Italy.
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Zhengyou Zhang is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA. He
received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of
Zhejiang, China, in 1985, the M.S. in computer science from the University of
Nancy, France, in 1987, the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University
of Paris XI, France, in 1990, and the Doctor of Science diploma from the
University of Paris XI, in 1994.
He has been with INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control) for 11 years until he joined Microsoft Research in March
1998. In 1996-1997, he spent one-year sabbatical as an Invited Researcher at the
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto,
Japan. His current research interests include 3D computer vision, dynamic scene
analysis, vision and graphics, facial image analysis, multi-sensory technology,
and human-computer interaction. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and is an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 100
papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and has co-authored
the following books: 3D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992); Epipolar Geometry in Stereo, Motion and
Object Recognition (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996); Computer Vision
(textbook in Chinese, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1998). He is an Area Chair
and a Demo Chair of the International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV2003), October 2003, Nice, France, and a Program Chair of the Asian
Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2004), January 2004, Jeju Island, Korea.