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Thomas C. Henderson, Ph.D.

Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Utah


Co-Head with Bill Thompson of the Vision/Robotics Research Group.


Current Areas of Interest and Research:

  1. Image understanding for manufacturing.
  2. Computer Aided Behavior Design

Professional Employment

7/89 to present. University of Utah. Professor of Computer Science
9/91 to present. University of Utah. Chairman of Computer Science
7/89 to 9/91. University of Utah. Associate Chairman of Computer Science
7/84 to 7/89. University of Utah. Associate Prof. of Computer Science
1/85 to present. University of Utah. Adjunct Assoc. Prof. of Bioengineering
7/85 to 7/87. University of Utah. Associate Chairman of Computer Science
1/82 to 6/84. University of Utah. Assistant Prof. of Computer Science
10/80 to 12/81. INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. Visiting Professor
11/79 to 9/80. DFVLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, W. Germany. Research Associate

Education

BS, Math (with Honors), Louisiana State University, 1973
PhD, Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979

Books

Discrete Relaxation Techniques, Oxford University Press, 1990

Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors, (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1990

Selected Articles

  1. ``Efficient 3-D Object Representations for Industrial Vision Systems,'' IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence Vol. PAMI-5, No. 6, pp. 609-618, November 1983.
  2. ``Logical Sensor Specification,'' Journal Of Robotic Systems, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 169-193, 1984. (Thomas C. Henderson and Esther Shilcrat)
  3. ``MKS: A Multi-sensor Kernel System,'' IEEE Trans. On Systems, Man And Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-14, No. 5, pp. 784-791, September/October 1984. (Thomas C. Henderson and Wu So Fai)
  4. ``A Note on Discrete Relaxation,'' Computer Vision, Graphics, And Image Processing, Vol. 28, pp.384-388, 1984.
  5. ``Edge and Shape Guided Image Registration,'' IEEE Trans. On Geoscience And Remote Sensing, Vol. GE-23, No. 3, pp. 334-342, May 1985. (Thomas C. Henderson, Ernst Triendl, and Rudolf Winter)
  6. ``Shape Grammar Compilers,'' Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 279-288, 1985. (Thomas C. Henderson and Ashok Samal)
  7. ``Organizing Spatial Data for Robotics Systems,'' Computers In Industry, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 331-344, Oct. 1985. (Thomas C. Henderson, Chuck Hansen, and Wu So Fai)
  8. ``Arc and Path Consistency Revisited,'' Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 1986, pp. 225-233. (Roger Mohr and Thomas C. Henderson)
  9. ``Multi-constraint Shape Analysis,'' Image And Vision Computing, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1986, pp. 84-96. (Thomas C. Henderson and Ashok Samal)
  10. ``A Parallel Architecture for Discrete Relaxation Algorithm,'' IEEE-T Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence Vol. PAMI-9, No. 6, Nov. 1987, pp. 816-831. (Jun Gu, Wei Wang and Thomas C. Henderson )
  11. ``Multisensor Knowledge Systems: Interpreting 3-D Structure,'' Int. Jnl. Of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Multisensor Integration, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 114-137, 1988. (Thomas C. Henderson, Amar Mitiche, Eliot Weitz, and Chuck Hansen)
  12. ``A Survey of Dextrous Manipulation,'' to Int. Jnl. Of Robotics Research Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 38-62, 1989. (Rod Grupen, Thomas C. Henderson and Ian McCammon)
  13. ``Parallel Consistent Labeling Algorithms,'' International Journal Of Parallel Programming, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 341-364, 1988. (Ashok Samal and Thomas C. Henderson)
  14. ``CAGD-Based Computer Vision,'' IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1181-1193, 1989. (with Chuck Hansen)
  15. ``Logical Behaviors,'' Journal Of Robotic Systems Special Issue on Multisensor Integration, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 309-336, June 1990. (with Rod Grupen)

    International Courses and Committees

    Participated and lectured in several NATO ASIs and ARWs, as well as Director of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop.

    Selected Past Research Grants as Principle Investigator or Co-PI

    1. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensors- $28,000, Maratea, Italy, August, 1989.
    2. NSF - ``CAD-Based Computer Vision'' (July 1985 - Jan. 1988) $145,000 (Bir Bhanu, Co-PI)
    3. NSF - ``A Framework for Distributed Sensing and Control'' (July 1985 - Jan. 1988) $158,000 (Bir Bhanu, Co-PI)
    4. NSF Workshop on ``Multisensor Integration in Manufacturing Automation,'' Feb. 5-7, 1987, Snowbird, Utah. $28,713
    5. NSF/INRIA - ``Robot World Representation, Interpretation, and Control'' (July 1989-December 1991) $42,770 (Associate Investigators: Ed Riseman, U. Mass. and Olivier Faugeras, INRIA)
    6. NSF - ``Dexterous Manipulation,'' (June 1988 - Dec. 1990), $110,170.
    7. NSF - ``Computer Aided Prototyping,'' Project Director. (June '91 - Dec. '96) CISE-Institutional Infrastructure Grant, $1.6M.
    8. NSF - ``Sensing Strategies for Advanced Manufacturing,'' Co-PI. (Sept '93 - Dec. '96) ARPA, $887,000
    9. NSF - ``NSF Traineeship,'' Project Director. (Sept '93 - Dec. '98) Human/computer Interface and INtelligent Control, $600,000

    Reviewer

    National Science Foundation, several IEEE Transactions, computer vision and robotics journals and major artificial intelligence and computer vision conferences. Associate Editor of IEEE-T PAMI('91-'93). Co Editor in Chief, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.


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