Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:20:32 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1+ Content-type: text/html Content-length: 6089 Last-modified: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 16:38:21 GMT William B. Thompson, University of Utah

William B. Thompson


Professor of Computer Science
University of Utah


William B. Thompson
Department of Computer Science
3190 Merrill Engineering Building
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Tel: (801) 585-3302
Fax: (801) 581-5843

thompson@cs.utah.edu


Co-Head, with Thomas C. Henderson of the Vision/Robotics Research Group.


Current Areas of Interest and Research:

Professor Thompson's primary research interest is in the area of computer vision, with an emphasis on problems involving the determination of shape and spatial organization for tasks in robotics.


Professor Thompson is currently on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and previously served as an Associate Editor of that journal. He joined the University of Utah in 1991 after 16 years in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota.

Selected Publications:

K.T. Sutherland and W.B. Thompson, ``Localizing in Unstructured Environments: Dealing with the Errors,'' IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, December 1994.

H.L. Pick, Jr., M.R. Heinrichs, D.R. Montello, K. Smith, C.N. Sullivan, and W.B. Thompson, ``Topographic Map Reading,'' in Ecology of Human-Machine Systems , J. Flach, P. Hancock, J. Caird, and K. Vicente, eds., in press.

J.C. Owen, P.-P.J. Sloan, and W.B. Thompson, ``Interactive Feature-Based Reverse Engineering of Mechanical Parts,'' Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, November 1994.

K.T. Sutherland and W.B. Thompson, ``Pursuing Projections, Keeping a Robot on Path,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 1994.

W.B. Thompson, P. Lechleider, and E.R. Stuck, ``Detecting Moving Objects Using The Rigidity Constraint,'' IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, February, 1993.

W.B. Thompson and J.S. Painter, ``Qualitative Constraints for Structure-From-Motion,'' Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing B: Image Understanding, July, 1992.

M.R. Wick and W.B. Thompson, ``Reconstructive Expert System Explanation,'' Artificial Intelligence, March 1992.

W.B. Thompson and T.C. Pong, ``Detecting Moving Objects,'' International Journal of Computer Vision, January 1990.

W.B. Thompson, K.M. Mutch, and V.A. Berzins, ``Dynamic Occlusion Analysis in Optical Flow Fields,'' IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, July 1985.

C.L. Fennema and W.B. Thompson, ``Velocity Determination in Scenes Containing Several Moving Objects,'' Computer Graphics and Image Processing, April 1979.