Yiannis Aloimonos

Professor

4214 Iribe Center

(301) 405-1743

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Research Group(s):

CfAR – Center for Automation Research

Education:

Ph.D., University of Rochester, New York (Computer Science)

Biography:

Yiannis "John" Aloimonos is a professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Laboratory.

He has written more than 200 research publications on computer vision, especially on Active Vision. Aloimonos has contributed to the theory of computational vision in various ways, including the discovery of the trilinear constraints (with M. Spetsakis) and the mathematics of stability in motion analysis as a function of the field of view (with Cornelia Fermüller), which contributed to the development of omni directional sensors. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals (such as IEEE PAMI, CVIU, the Visual Computer, Pattern Recognition); has chaired several international and national conferences (CVPR, ICPR, 3DPVT); and is the co-author of four books, including one textbook on artificial intelligence.

Aloimonos has received awards for his work, including the Marr Prize Honorable Mention Award 1987, the Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush in 1990, and the Bodossaki Prize in AI and Computer Vision in 1994. His research has been supported over the years by NSF, NIH, ONR, DARPA, IBM, Honeywell, Dassault, Westinghouse, Google, Honda and the European Union. For the past five years, he has been working on cognitive systems under the project POETICON, and more recently under the NSF Cyberphysical Systems Program.

He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1987. Aloimonos started at the University of Maryland in 1986. In 1993, he was a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden, and in 1994, he served as a visiting professor at the Institute FORTH in Crete, Greece.

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Publications

1990

Herve J, Aloimonos Y. 1990. Catastrophe theory and computational vision. Proc. AAAI-90 Workshop on Qualitative Vision. :96-100.

Aloimonos Y. 1990. Purposive and qualitative active vision. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1990. i:346-360vol.1-346-360vol.1.

1989

Aloimonos Y. 1989. Unifying Shading and Texture Through an Active Observer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences. 238(1290):25-37.

Spetsakis ME, Aloimonos Y. 1989. Optimal motion estimation. Workshop on Visual Motion, 1989.,Proceedings. :229-237.

Aloimonos Y, Shulman D. 1989. Learning early-vision computations. JOSA A. 6(6):908-919.

Aloimonos Y. 1989. Unification and integration of visual modules. Proceedings Image Understanding Workshop. :507-551.

Aloimonos Y, Brown CM. 1989. On the kinetic depth effect. Biological cybernetics. 60(6):445-455.

1988

Aloimonos Y, Davis LS, Rosenfeld A. 1988. The Maryland approach to image understanding. Science Applications International Corp, Proceedings: Image Understanding Workshop,. 1

Aloimonos Y, Brown CM. 1988. Robust computation of intrinsic images from multiple cues. Advances in Computer Vision. 1:115-163.

Aloimonos Y. 1988. Visual shape computation. Proceedings of the IEEE. 76(8):899-916.

Aloimonos Y. 1988. Shape from texture. Biological Cybernetics. 58(5):345-360.

Spetsakis ME, Aloimonos Y. 1988. Optimal Computing Of Structure From Motion Using Point Correspondences In Two Frames. Proceedings of Second International Conference on Computer Vision. :449-453.

Nelson R, Aloimonos Y. 1988. Using flow field divergence for obstacle avoidance in visual navigation. Science Applications International Corp, Proceedings: Image Understanding Workshop,. 2

Aloimonos Y, Hervé JY. 1988. Correspondenceless detection of depth and motion for a planar surface.

Aloimonos Y, Weiss I, Bandyopadhyay A. 1988. Active vision. International Journal of Computer Vision. 1(4):333-356.

Aloimonos Y, Swain M. 1988. Shape from patterns: Regularization. International journal of computer vision. 2(2):171-187.

1987

Basu A, Aloimonos Y. 1987. A robust algorithm for determining the translation of a rigidly moving surface without correspondence, for robotics applications.

Aloimonos Y, Shulman D. 1987. Learning shape computations. Proc. DARPA Image.

Spetsakis ME, Aloimonos Y. 1987. Spatiotemporal blur paths for image flow estimation (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 4:35-35.

of at of Science U M C P. D. C, Spetsakis ME, Aloimonos Y, of at for Research U M C P. C A. 1987. Structure from Motion from Line Correspondencies: New Results.

Ito E, Aloimonos Y. 1987. Determining three dimensional transformation parameters from images: Theory. 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Proceedings. 4:57-61.

1986

Aloimonos Y, Basu A. 1986. Shape and 3-d motion from contour without point to point correspondences: General principles. CVPR86. :518-527.

Aloimonos Y. 1986. Computing Intrinsic Images..

Aloimonos Y, Basu A. 1986. Determining the Translation of a Rigidly Moving Surface, without Correspondence,.

1985

Aloimonos Y, Basu A, Brown CM. 1985. Contour, orientation and motion. Proceedings: Image Understanding Workshop (Miami Beach, FL, December 9–10, 1985). :129-136.

Aloimonos Y, Chou PB, of of Science U R. D. C. 1985. Detection of Surface Orientation and Motion from Texture: The Case of Planes.

1984

Aloimonos Y, Brown CM. 1984. Direct processing of curvilinear sensor motion from a sequence of perspective images. Proc. Workshop on Computer Vision: Representation and Control. 72:77-77.

Aloimonos Y, Brown CM. 1984. The relationship between optical flow and surface orientation. Proc. of the 7-th ICPR, Montreal-Canada.

1980

Aloimonos Y, Kamgar-Parsi B. 1980. Correspondence from Correspondence. Optical Society of America, Topical Meeting on Machine Vision. :46-51.