CURRICULUM VITAE

FULL NAME: Stuart Martin Fairley        DATE OF BIRTH:  20th January 1970
                                        NATIONALITY:    British

ADDRESS:   5646 Munhall Road, #7,       TELEPHONE:      +1 412 268 3176
           Pittsburgh,                  FAX:            +1 412 268 5571
           PA 15217                     E-MAIL:         smf+@cs.cmu.edu
           USA.

EDUCATION:

1980-1988 Berkhamsted School for Boys, Berkhamsted, Herts.
          A-Levels:      4 grade A
                         Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Geography
          AO-Levels:     2 grade A
                         Electronics, Maths
          O-Levels:      8 grade A, 1 grade B
                         Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, French,
                         Latin, Greek, English

1988-1992 Keble College, Oxford University.
          Engineering and Computing Science, MEng    First Class Honours
          Sponsored by the BBC
          Scholarship from Keble College for four years.


The engineering course gave a good overview of many fields of engineering,
while the emphasis in later courses was software engineering. For my third
year project I wrote software to segment range images, producing information
for a recognition system to process. In my fourth year project I designed
and built a Doppler sonar range and velocity sensor.

1992-1996 Robotics Research Group, Department of Engineering Science,
          Oxford University.
          D. Phil., Active Stereo Vision

Current applications of robotics research tend to rely on specific sensors
for suitable applications where the working environment is well defined. My
interest is in using vision as a more general sensor.  My belief that vision
provides the most robust form of general sensing is based on the fact that
much of life on the planet relies on it.  To this end my research has used
an active stereo head, this enables the use of large effective fields of
view and recovery of three dimensional information. Interest has been in
moving targets, and so my work has involved, initially, investigating the
best way to ensure that the cameras are both looking at the same object.
Then research has gone into tracking the object with both cameras, current
work is geared towards recovering the structure of the object. Other work
has included automatically calibrating the rig using known motions, so that
Euclidean reconstruction is possible.

1996-1997 Research Assistant in Robotics Research Group providing a
          multiple camera vision system for augmented visual feedback
          to a tele-operator.

CURRENT POSITION:

1997-1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University,
          Pittsburgh, PA.
          Managed the real-time obstacle detection for high speed
          driving project.

In order for computer vision to be widely useful in the short term the
algorithms achieving useful tasks used must run fast on easily
available hardware. Using such hardware (a PC) I implemented a
real-time edge-based tracking algorithm to aid tracking of small
obstacles detected by a stereo system. To complete the system I
installed a network of 4 QNX-based computers in a vehicle and
implemented the real-time data transfer and data fusion required to
provide the driver with information on obstacles up to 150m for the
vehicle at 5Hz. A live demonstration was held early in 1998.

1998      Instructor (lecturer) for Computer Graphics 1 at Carnegie
          Mellon University.

PUBLICATIONS:
Transfer Of Fixation For An Active Stereo Platform Via Affine Structure
Recovery,
S. M. Fairley, I. D. Reid and D. W. Murray.
In the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.

The Pipe-Group Architecture for Real-Time Active Vision,
P. F. McLauchlan, S. M. Fairley, I. D. Reid and D. W. Murray. To
appear in a special issue of the Journal of Real-Time Imaging, 1996.

Stereo Fixation Using Affine Transfer,
S. M. Fairley, I. D.  Reid and D. W. Murray.
In the Proceedings of the 5th British Machine Vision Conference, York, 1994.

Active Exploration Of Dynamic And Static Scenes,
D. W. Murray, I. D. Reid, P. F. McLauchlan, P. M. Sharkey, K. J. Bradshaw
and S. M.  Fairley.
Chapter in Active Vision, Ed. Terzopoulos and Brown,
Cambridge University Press, 1995.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1988-1991 6 weeks each summer working in the Design and Equipment
          Department of the BBC.
1992-1993 Computer Officer at Lady Margaret Hall.
1995-1997 Research assistant in Robotics Research Group.
1997-1999 Postdoctoral research fellow in Robotics Institute at
          Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1998      Lecturing computer graphics

1996      Tutorial teaching of first year engineering mathematics

1994-1995 Demonstrating for micro-processor practicals

SKILLS:

Computer languages: C, shell script, MMX assembly, Basic, Modula-2,
      Fortran, Prolog, Orwell

Operating systems and platforms: UNIX, SGI, system maintenance of QNX
      real-time operating system on PCs, Sun workstation, DOS

OTHER INTERESTS:

Athletics (Track and field) - 4 Half Blues

National Trust Volunteer work - Acorn camp co-leader

Travel - Mexico, Guatemala, China, Pakistan

REFEREES:

Prof. Takeo Kanade,
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
USA.

Dr. Charles Thorpe,
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
USA.

Dr. David Murray (D. Phil. Supervisor),
Robotics Research Group,
Department of Engineering Science,
19 Parks Road,
OX1 3PJ,
United Kingdom.

Prof. J. M. Brady,
Robotics Research Group,
Department of Engineering Science,
19 Parks Road,
OX1 3PJ,
United Kingdom.