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\F2\CCURRICULUM VITA


\F0\CThomas O. Binford
Born:  April 13,1936
Nationality: USA



\F0\CCurrent Research 

\JFrom 1970 to the present, I have been at Stanford University.
I lead a research group in the Computer Science Department,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.  We are fifteen
people involved in research in computer vision (pattern recognition or machine
perception) and robotics.  We study particularly stereo vision and motion parallax 
applied to control
of assembly devices and control of autonomous vehicles, to stereo photointerpretation
and to industrial inspection.  Our study includes ways of obtaining depth
information from sequences of images seen by a moving observer, ways of
segmenting objects from background using depth information, and ways of
describing objects.  I invented the "generalized cone" representation
of shape, a representation of space, and a laser-ranging system for depth
measurement.
This representation of shape is in use in three research programs in
biomedical imaging, applied to neuron and organ structure mapping.
Our program of research based on these techniques lead to
recognition of objects of the  complexity of dolls, toy horses and tools.\.

\JWe have designed and implemented a language for industrial assembly, to
play the same role in standardizing programming of assembly devices that APT
has played in programming numerically-controlled machine tools.
The key research issues here include optimal and adaptive path planning 
using sensory feedback from touch and force.   
This research is potentially important in prosthetics.\.

My current research interests are:
    math representations of shape, texture, and space
    vision language
    recognition algorithms
    relaxation algorithms for parameter estimation
    estimation theory for edge, region, curves, stereo
    language for assembly
    optimal path planning.

\CPrevious Research

\JBefore coming to Stanford, I worked in the same areas of research in 
computer science and Artificial Intelligence at
MIT,in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, for the period 1967-1970.\.

\CPost-Doctoral Research

\JPrior to coming to MIT, I took a Fulbright grant at Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research,Bombay India, during 1965-1966.
During that period I did the
following research in fundamental particle physics:
partial wave analysis of hyperon production by pions;
Regge-pole analysis of Sigma plus production by pions;
theory of unstable particles and symmetry principles.\.

\CPhD in Physics
\JI did research in experimental particle physics and
phenomenology based on theoretical models, at the University of Wisconsin,
receiving a PhD in 1965.
The results included:
experimental investigation of strange particle production by pions near 1 Bev/c;
two new experimental equalities among cross sections;
test of charge independence in hyperon production;
Regge-pole model of high-energy elastic scattering cross sections.
I received a BS in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1957.\.

\F2\CBibliography

\F0\JR.K.Nevatia and T.O.Binford, "Structured Descriptions and Recognition
of Complex Objects", to be published in the Artificial
Intelligence Journal.\.

\JT.O.Binford et al, "Exploratory Study of Computer Integrated Assembly
Systems", Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Memo AIM-285,
Aug 1976.\.

\JG. Agin and T.O.Binford, "Representation and Description of Complex Objects", 
IEEE Transactions on Digital Computers, Nov 1975.\.

\JT.O.Binford,"Computer Vision  and Productivity  Technology",  Invited
Tutorial, Fourth International  Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR, September 1975.\.

\JT.O.Binford et al, "Exploratory Study of Computer Integrated Assembly
Systems", Second Report, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Dec 1975.\.

\JE.Miyamoto and T.O.Binford, "Display Generated  by a Generalized Cone
Representation",   Conference   on   Computer   Graphics  and   Image
Processing, May 1975.\.

\JT.O.Binford et al, "Exploratory Study of Computer Integrated Assembly
Systems", First Report, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Oct 1974.\.

\JA.J.Thomas and T.O.Binford, "Information Processing Analysis of Visual
Perception, A Review", Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Memo
AIM-227, June 1974.\.

\JW.A.Perkins and T.O.Binford,  "A Corner Finder for  Visual Feedback",
Computer Graphics and Image Processing 2, December 1973.\.

\JR.K.Nevatia and T.O.Binford,"Structured   Descriptions  of   Complex   Objects",
Third Int Conf on AI,Stanford, Calif, 1973.\.

\JG. Agin and T.O.Binford, "Representation and Description of Complex Objects", 
Third Int Jt Conf on AI, Stanford, Calif, 1973.\.

\JT.O.Binford and J.M.Tenenbaum,"Computer Vision", IEEE Computer, May 1973,
19-24.\.

\JT.O.Binford,"Sensor Systems for  Manipulation",  Conference  on  Remotely  Manned
Systems, JPL, Pasadena, Calif, Sept 1972.\.

\JT.O.Binford,"Visual  Perception  by  Computer",  Invited  paper  at  
IEEE Systems Science and Cybernetics Conf, Miami, Dec 1971.\.

\JWith Feldman, et al, "The Use of Vision and Manipulation to Solve the
Instant Insanity Puzzle", Proc. Second International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence.\.

\JWith Tenenbaum, et al, "A laboratory for Hand-Eye Research",
IFIP proceedings, August 1971.\.

\JT.O.Binford,"The Vision Laboratory-Part One", MIT AI memo 203.\.

\JA. Herskovits and T.O.Binford, "On Boundary Detection", MIT AI memo 183.\.

\JT.O.Binford,"Display Functions in LISP", MIT AI memo 182, Jan 1970.\.

\JB.R. Desai and T.O.Binford,  "High   Energy  Elastic  Scattering  at   Low  Momentum
Transfers", Physical Review 138,B1167.\.

\JWith  others,  "Experimental  Check  of   Some  SU(6)  Cross  Section
Equalities", Physical Review Letters 14,715.\.

\JBinford et al, "Hyperon Production in Pion Interactions", Physical Review (1968).\.

\JWith others,"Triangle  Inequality  in  Associated  Production",  Physical  Review
(1968).\.

\JWith Anderson, et al, "CP-Nonconserving three-pion Decay of Kzero", Physical
Review Letters 14,475.\.

\JWith Stern et al, "Absolute Decay Rate for Leptonic Decays of Kzero and the
Delta I =1/2 Rule", Physical Review Letters 12,459.\.

\JWith  Lind,  et  al,  "Experimental  Investigation of V-A in Leptonic
Lambda Decay", Phys Rev 135,B1483.\.


Member IEEE Pattern Recognition Technical Committee


\CConferences and Workshops Organization

Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1971, chairman

Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1972, chairman

Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1973, chairman

\JNSF Workshop on Sensors for Automation, Lexington, Mass, 1973
	co-chairman, industrial automation section\.

Conference on Cognitive Robotics Systems, Pasadena, Calif, Mar 1975, co-chairman

\JNSF Workshop on Software for Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, Nov 1976,
chairman.\.


\cPhD Students

G.J.Agin	Description and Representation	1972
		of Complex Objects

R.K.Nevatia	Recognition of Complex Objects	1974

Ruzena Bajcsy (under Prof J. McCarthy)
	Computer Identification of Textured	1972
		Visual Scenes

T. Garvey	Purposive Vision		1975