00100	Name:  THOMAS O. BINFORD
00200	Born:  April 13,1936, Jefferson Twp, Pennsylvania
00300	Nationality: USA
00400	Marital Status:divorced
00500	
00600	EDUCATION:
00700	BS	physics		Pennsylvania State University	1957
00800	PhD 	physics		University of Wisconsin		1965
00900	
01000	CURRENT RESEARCH:
01100	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University
01200		laser depth ranging system
01300		representation of shape
01400		recognition of complex objects
01500		efficient method for proximity in n-dimensions
01600		color region analysis
01700		analysis of texture
01800		sensor study
01900	
02000	
02100	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT  1967-1970
02200		Topological region analysis
02300		line finder using sequential decision 
02400		software for a visual experimentation
02500		recognition of parallelipipeds from incomplete line drawings
02600		two-dimensional shape recognition
02700		line verification
02800		line prediction
02900	
03000	POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH:
03100	Fulbright grant, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Bombay India
03200	partial wave analysis of hyperon production by pions;
03300	Regge-pole analysis of Sigma plus production by pions;
03400	theory of unstable particles and symmetry principles
03500	
03600	PhD
03700	Strange particle production by pions near 1 Bev/c.
03800	Two new experimental equalities among cross sections;
03900	test of charge independence in hyperon production;
04000	showed adequacy of Regge-pole theory to explain high-energy cross sections;
04100	
04200	
04300	PUBLICATIONS:
04400	
04405	"Structured Descriptions of Complex Objects",R.K.Nevatia and T.O.Binford
04407	 Third Int Conf on AI,Stanford, Calif, 1973.
04415	
04420	"Computer Vision", T.O.Binford and J.M.Tenenbaum, Computer, IEEE,
04425	April 1973.
04430	
04500	"Sensor Systems for  Manipulation",  Conference  on  Remotely  Manned
04600	Systems, JPL, Pasadena, Calif, Sept 1972.
04700	
04800	"Visual  Perception  by  Computer",  Invited  paper  at  IEEE Systems
04900	Science and Cybernetics, Miami, Dec 1971.
05000	
05100	With G. Agin, "Representation and Description of Complex Objects", 
05200	Third Int Jt Conf on AI, Stanford, Calif, 1973
05300	
05400	With Feldman, et al, "The Use of Vision and Manipulation to Solve the
05500	Instant Insanity Puzzle", Proc. Second International Joint Conference
05600	on Artificial Intelligence.
05700	
05800	With Tenenbaum, et al, "A laboratory for Hand-Eye Research",
05900	IFIP proceedings, August 1971.
06000	
06100	"The Vision Laboratory-Part One", MIT AI memo 203.
06200	
06300	"The TOPOLOGIST: A Region-Oriented System", (in draft form)
06400	
06500	With A. Herskovits, "On Boundary Detection", MIT AI memo 183.
06600	
06700	"Display Functions in LISP", MIT AI memo 182.
06800	
06900	With Desai, "High  Energy Elastic Scattering at Low Momentum Transfers", Physical
07000	Review 138,B1167.
07100	
07200	With others, "Experimental Check of Some SU(6) Cross Section Equalities", Physical
07300	Review Letters 14,715.
07400	
07500	With others, "Hyperon Production in Pion Interactions", Physical Review (1968).
07600	
07700	"Triangle  Inequality  in  Associated  Production",  Physical  Review
07800	(1968).
07900							     + - o
08000	With Anderson, et al, "CP-Nonconserving Decay 	K ← π π π ", Physical
08100							1
08200	Review Letters 14,475.
08300						     o   +  -  o
08400	With Stern, et al, "Absolute Decay Rate for K → π  π  π  and the
08500						     2
08600						     2
08700	|DI|=1/2 Rule", Physical Review Letters 12,459.
08800	
08900	With  Lind,  et  al,  "Experimental  Investigation of V-A in Leptonic
09000	Lambda Decay", Phys Rev 135,B1483.
09100	
09200	
09300	DOCTORAL STUDENTS:
09400	
09500	G.J.Agin	Description and Representation	1972
09600			of Complex Objects
09700	
09800	R.K.Nevatia	Recognition of Complex Objects	1973
09900	
10000	Ruzena Bajcsy (under Prof J. McCarthy)
10100		Computer Identification of Textured	1972
10200			Visual Scenes
10300	
10400	T. Garvey	Perceptual Problem Solving	1973
10500	
10600	Conferences and Workshops Organization
10700	
10800	Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1971, chairman
10900	
11000	Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1972, chairman
11100	
11200	Conference on Computer Vision, Pajaro Dunes, Calif, 1973, chairman
11300	
11400	NSF Workshop on Sensor for Automation, Lexington, Mass, 1973
11500		co-chairman, industrial automation section