Stan Birchfield Associate Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Clemson University After receiving a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999, I worked on intelligent digital audio and video at a startup company in Palo Alto, California for several years.  I joined the faculty at Clemson in 2003 and have recently been involved in launching TrafficVision. I am an Associate Editor for Machine Vision and Applications, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, an Associate Editor for ICRA and IROS, and regularly serve on the Program Committee for CVPR, ICCV, RSS, etc. Beginning in 2013, I am on a leave of absence with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.

Research

In order for autonomous agents to interact with the real world, they must be able to sense the three-dimensional space around them. This is the focus of my research, namely to enable computer-based systems to automatically extract information about their surroundings from sensor data.  Along with my students and colleagues, I research various topics in visual motion, spatial acoustics, and mobile robotics. 

Complete list of Publications and Students

Adaptive fragments-based tracking	Articulated reconstruction	Joint feature tracking	Low-resolution navigation
Robotic laundry (classification, unfolding, pose estimation)	Door detection	Floor segmentation	Mobile robot path following
Vehicle tracking	Person following	Minirhizotron image analysis	Motion segmentation
Head tracking	Multiway-cut stereo	Pixel-based stereo	Acoustic localization
Microphone calibration	Motion discontinuities	Minimalistic corridors

Financial support from the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged:

• National Science Foundation
• National Institute for Medical Informatics, Medical Media Lab
• Transportation Research Board, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center of South Carolina State University

U. S. Ignite video presented at White House (June 2012):  video; also available at CCC blog (scroll halfway down page)

• Digital Image Processing (ECE 847) [Fall 2012 -- Fall 2011 -- Fall 2010 -- Fall 2009 -- Fall 2008 -- Fall 2007 -- Fall 2006 -- Fall 2005 -- Fall 2004]
• Computer Vision (ECE 877) [Spring 2012 -- Spring 2011 -- Spring 2010 -- Spring 2009 -- Spring 2008 -- Spring 2007 -- Spring 2006 -- Spring 2005]
• Computer Vision Seminar (ECE 904)  [S12 -- F11 -- S11 -- F10 -- S10 -- F09 -- S09 -- F08 -- S08 -- F07 -- S07 -- F06 -- S06 -- F05 -- S05 -- F04 -- S04 -- F03]
• Software Engineering (ECE 417/617)  [Spring 2012 -- Spring 2011 -- Spring 2010 -- Spring 2009 -- Spring 2008 -- Spring 2007 -- Spring 2006 -- Spring 2005 -- Spring 2004]
• Computer Systems Structures (ECE 329) [Fall 2008 -- Fall 2007 -- Fall 2006 -- Fall 2005]
• Organization of Computers (ECE 429/629)  [Fall 2009 -- Fall 2004 -- Fall 2003]

An Introduction to Projective Geometry

Software

• Blepo:  Computer vision library in C/C++
• Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracker: Feature detection and tracking library in C
• Rootfly: Software application for minirhizotron image analysis

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