Thomas Binford

Thomas Binford

Thomas O. Binford has been a leading researcher in image analysis and computer vision since 1967. His results reflect seminal work in numerous areas of research including the interpretation of complex scenes using invariants and quasi-invariants, generic geometric modeling and display of complex objects using generalized cylinders and extensions, inference rules and evidential reasoning in extended Bayes networks of symbolic geometric constraints, the SUCCESSOR system, a portable, intelligent vision system, stereo and visual robot navigation, segmentation and feature estimation in complex images, color image analysis, surface material analysis, and image compression. He has led the development of numerous computer vision systems, including systems successfully employed in brain surgery on humans, high-precision automated machining, and helicopter navigation.

Dr. Binford is currently an emeritus professor of computer science (research), at
Stanford University, where he was on the research faculty from 1970 to 2000. While at Stanford, Professor Binford supervised more than 40 PhD theses while leading research in computer vision, artificial intelligence, medical image processing, radar image understanding, robotics, industrial inspection, and manufacturing. From 1966 to 1970, he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory working in computer vision and robotics. From 1965 to 1966, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.

Since retiring from active research at Stanford, Dr. Binford has founded and is chairman and chief technology officer of Read-Ink Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a company specializing in online handwriting recognition software. He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

External links

* [http://www.read-ink.com Read-Ink Technologies]


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