VASC Members' Areas of Expertise

Table of Contents

Theory

Computer Vision
Mathematics
Physics
Learning
Other

Software

Document Preparation
Mathematics Packages
Plotting
CAD
Graphics
Image Display
Debugging Tools
Version Control
Simulation
Other

Programming

General Purpose Languages
Image Processing Software Environments
Systems Level Programming / Special Purpose Hardware
World Wide Web
Graphics
Other

Hardware

Operating Systems
Computing
Interfaces
Sensing
Mechanical
Design

Organizational Contacts
Other
VASC Contact

Theory

• Computer Vision

  • Lens Calibration - Mark Maimone

  • Signal Processing / Image Processing - Vladimir Brajovic, Eric Kischell, Mark Maimone, Henry Schneiderman, Mei Chen (edge detection, region/cluster based detection), Paul Levin (DSP)

  • Binocular Stereo - John Hancock, Bill Ross, Mark Maimone

  • Optical Flow - John Hancock, Parag Batavia

  • Imagery with Shape Ground Truth - Mark Maimone

  • Shape and Motion from Video - Teck-Khim Ng

  • Medical Imaging - David Simon, Farhana Kagalwala, Mei Chen

  • Color Image Analysis - Yoichi Sato

  • Physics-Based Computer Vision - Yoichi Sato

  • Real-time Tracking - Mei Chen, Henry Schneiderman

  • 3-D Sensing - Andrew Edie Johnson

  • 3-D Modeling - Andrew Edie Johnson, Farhana Kagalwala (volumetric modeling), Eric Bainville (physically-based modeling), Yoichi Sato

  • 3-D Registration and Matching - Andrew Edie Johnson, David Simon, Mei Chen

  • Object Recognition - Andrew Edie Johnson, Henry Schneiderman, Dongmei Zhang

• Mathematics

  • Probability and Statistics - Fabio Cozman, Paul Levin

  • Linear Algebra - Eric Bainville, Henry Schneiderman

  • Geometry - Eric Bainville

    • Projective Geometry - Liang Zhao

    • Computational Geometry - Andrew Edie Johnson, Eric Bainville

• Physics

  • Optics - Vladimir Brajovic, Farhana Kagalwala

  • Electrostatic Field Theory - Ben Brown

  • Magnetic Resonance - Paul Levin

• Learning

  • Pattern Recognition Theory - Liang Zhao, Eric Kischell, Henry Schneiderman, Teck-Khim Ng, Mei Chen

  • Neural Networks - Eric Kischell, Michael Nechyba, Parag Batavia (backprop and quickprop)

  • Hidden Markov Models - Michael Nechyba

  • Fuzzy Logic - Eric Kischell

  • Bayesian Networks - Fabio Cozman

• Other

  • Mobile Robots - Terry Fong

  • Teleoperation / Supervisory Control - Terry Fong

  • Virtual Environments - Terry Fong, Yoichi Sato

  • Robot Architectures - Terry Fong

  • Dynamic Systems - Yangsheng Xu, Michael Nechyba

  • Control Theory - Dongmei Zhang, Yangsheng Xu, Michael Nechyba, Mei Chen

  • Ray Tracing Techniques - Farhana Kagalwala

  • User Interface Design and Evaluation - Eric Kischell

  • Software System Design - Eric Kischell

  • Mechatronics Design - Yangsheng Xu

  • Database Systems - Yihong Gong (Multimedia database systems, content-based image retrieval, digital libraries, image and video analysis and annotation)

  • Kinematics - George Paul

  • Screw Theory - George Paul

  • Quaternions - George Paul

Software

• Document Preparation

  • vi - Rahul Sukthankar

  • Framemaker - Terry Fong, David Simon, Farhana Kagalwala, Michael Nechyba, Mei Chen

  • LaTex - Mark Maimone, Henry Rowley

  • fm2html - Henry Rowley

  • latex2html - Henry Rowley

  • latex2e - Eric Bainville

• Mathematics Packages

  • Mathematica - Fabio Cozman, Michael Nechyba

  • Matlab - Fabio Cozman, Frank Dellaert, Liang Zhao, Eric Kischell, Mark Maimone, Teck-Khim Ng, Michael Nechyba, Kwun Han

  • Maple - Andrew Edie Johnson, Eric Bainville

  • LINPACK - Eric Bainville

  • BLAS (linear algebra library) - Eric Bainville

• Plotting

  • Gnuplot - Henry Schneiderman, Kwun Han, Prem Janardhan

  • xmgr - David Simon

• CAD

  • hspice (analog circuit simulations) - Vladimir Brajovic

  • magic (VLSI layout tool) - Vladimir Brajovic

  • Cadence - Vladimir Brajovic

  • Pro Engineer - Ben Brown

• Graphics

  • Phigs - David Simon

  • Rayshade / Utah Raster Toolkit - Mark Maimone

  • Geomview - Andrew Edie Johnson, Mei Chen, Prem Janardhan

  • AVS, AVS5 - Eric Kischell, David Simon, Mike Blackwell, Yoichi Sato

  • xforms - Eric Kischell, Mike Blackwell

• Image Display

  • xv - Terry Fong, Mei Chen

  • xli - Mark Maimone

• Debugging Tools

  • dbx - Eric Kischell

  • Purify (detects memory leaks) - Eric Kischell

  • Prodev Workshop - Eric Kischell

• Version Control

  • CVS/TKCVS - Eric Kischell, Terry Fong

• Simulation

  • TeleGRIP (robot simulation) - Andrew Edie Johnson

  • Ansoft Maxwell (electrostatic field modeling) - Ben Brown

• Other

  • Netscape - Terry Fong

  • f2c (Fortran to C converter)- Mark Maimone

  • GSNAKE (contour modeling, extraction, detection, and classification) - Eric Kischell

  • VASC Web Server - Henry Rowley

Programming

• General Purpose Languages

  • Ada - Henry Schneiderman

  • c++ - Rahul Sukthankar, Andrew Edie Johnson, Frank Dellaert, Eric Kischell, Farhana Kagalwala, John Hancock, Henry Rowley, Eric Bainville, Kwun Han, Parag Batavia, George Paul

    • LEDA - Andrew Edie Johnson, Prem Janardhan, George Paul

  • c - Bill Ross, Eric Kischell, Dongmei Zhang, Terry Fong, David Simon, Mark Maimone, Farhana Kagalwala, Henry Rowley, Eric Bainville

  • Fortran - Dongmei Zhang

• Image Processing Software Environments

  • VISTA - Dongmei Zhang, Henry Rowley, Yoichi Sato, Mei Chen, Prem Janardhan, George Paul

  • Vantage (a geometric modeling system) - George Paul

• Systems Level Programming / Special Purpose Hardware

  • Unix - Henry Rowley, Bill Ross, Terry Fong

    • awk/sed - David Simon, Terry Fong

    • csh - David Simon

  • Real-time Systems - Richard Voyles, Michael Nechyba (Chimera), Henry Schneiderman (Ada on VME platforms), Terry Fong (VxWorks)

  • Optimizing for Speed - Richard Madison

  • PC Windows Programming - Bill Ross, Richard Madison

  • IRIX - Eric Kischell, Terry Fong

  • C40 - Richard Madison

• World Wide Web

  • HTML - Rahul Sukthankar, Henry Rowley, Parag Batavia

  • Perl - Rahul Sukthankar, John Hancock, Parag Batavia

  • CGI scripts - Henry Rowley, Parag Batavia

  • JAVA - Fabio Cozman, Parag Batavia

• Graphics

  • Inventor, OpenInventor - Andrew Edie Johnson, John Hancock, Eric Bainville

  • X-windows / Xlib - Farhana Kagalwala, Henry Rowley, Eric Kischell, Michael Nechyba, Eric Bainville, Parag Batavia

  • Motif - Farhana Kagalwala, John Hancock, Michael Nechyba, Eric Bainville

  • IrisGL - Terry Fong, Farhana Kagalwala

  • OpenGL - Andrew Edie Johnson, Terry Fong, Mike Blackwell, Farhana Kagalwala

    • GLUT - Andrew Edie Johnson

  • WorldToolKit - Terry Fong

  • Tcl/Tk - Daniel Huber, Henry Rowley, Mei Chen, George Paul

  • VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) - Andrew Edie Johnson

• Other

  • Postscript - Henry Rowley

  • elisp - Henry Rowley, Kwun Han

Hardware

• Operating systems

  • Chimera - Richard Voyles

  • Linux - Rahul Sukthankar, Paul Levin, Parag Batavia

• Computing

  • Sun - Terry Fong

  • SGI - Terry Fong, David Simon, Mike Blackwell, Farhana Kagalwala

  • Real-time Systems - Vladimir Brajovic

  • Networks - Bill Ross

  • VME - Richard Voyles, Terry Fong

  • DSP Processors - Bill Ross

  • Disk Drives - Bill Ross, Paul Levin (scsi 2)

  • Umatic Tape Drive - Mei Chen

• Interfaces

  • RS232 - Bill Ross, Paul Levin, Terry Fong

• Sensing

  • Cameras - Bill Ross, Henry Rowley (SGI Indycam)

  • Lenses - Bill Ross

  • Video Hardware - Bill Ross

  • Digitizers - Bill Ross, Henry Rowley (K2T digitizer), Yoichi Sato

  • Force Sensors - Richard Voyles

  • GPS - Fabio Cozman

  • Compass - Fabio Cozman

  • Protractors - Fabio Cozman

  • RFX Range Finder - Dongmei Zhang, Yoichi Sato, George Paul

  • Optotrak - David Simon

  • Microscopes - Farhana Kagalwala

  • Cyberglove - Yoichi Sato

  • Inertial Sensors - Paul Levin (BEI imu), Dirk Langer

  • Sonar - Dirk Langer

  • Laser - Dirk Langer

  • Radar - Dirk Langer

  • Satellite - Dirk Langer

• Mechanical

  • Microcontrollers - Bill Ross

  • Vehicle - Dirk Langer

  • Robotworld - George Paul

  • Multibaseline Stereo Machine - George Paul

• Design

  • Digital Design - Ray Weymer, Vladimir Brajovic, Toru Ishikura

  • Analog Circuit Design - Vladimir Brajovic, Ben Brown

  • Mechanical Design - Ben Brown

Organizational Contacts

• NASA Ames Intelligent Mechanisms Group - Terry Fong

• NASA Telerobotics Program - Terry Fong

• University of Maryland Space Systems Laboratory - Terry Fong

• NIST Intelligent Systems Group - Henry Schneiderman

• Sandia Intelligent System Sensors and Controls Group - Henry Schneiderman

Other

• Technical Writing - Marie Elm

VASC Contact

Henry Schneiderman (hws@cs.cmu.edu)

13 Dec 1996 Created by Henry Schneiderman (hws@cs.cmu.edu)

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