Curriculum Vitae
 
  J. Yiannis Aloimonos
Computer Vision Laboratory
Center for Automation Research
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-3275, USA
yiannis@cfar.umd.edu
Telephone: office (301) 405-1743
assistant (301) 405-1738
facsimile (301) 314-9115
home (301) 935-4789

I    Personal Data

    Born: August 17, 1957, in Sparta, Greece

II    Education

     
    Degree Institution Date Field
    Diplome University of Athens, Greece 1981  Mathematics
    M.S.  University of Rochester, New York 1984  Computer Science
    Ph.D.  University of Rochester, New York 1987 Computer Science

III    Professional Experience

    September 1986 to present
    Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Department of Computer Science, and Computer Vision Laboratory, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3275. Assistant Professor, 1987-1992; Associate Professor, August 1992-1997; Professor, 1998-present
    September 1990 to present
    Head, Computer Vision Laboratory, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland
    September 1993 to February 1994
    Visiting Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
    February 1994 to August 1994
    Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and Institute for Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece

IV    Awards and Honors

    IBM Predoctoral Fellowship, 1985-1986
    Marr Prize Honorable Mention Award, 1st International Conference on Computer Vision, June 1987, for his work on Active Vision
    Presidential Young Investigator Award, CISE, National Science Foundation, 1990
    Member, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Vision, 1993-1996
    Member, New York Academy of Sciences
    1993 Bodossaki Award for Computational Vision and Image Processing (Award with a personal check for 30,000, presented to distinguished scientists of Hellenic origin in technical fields, under the age of 40; other winners include George Efstathiou of Oxford-1993 in Physics and John Tsitsiklis of MIT-1994 in Control Theory)

V    Publications

    1. Books and Chapters
      1. J. Aloimonos and C.M. Brown, ``Robust computation of intrinsic images from multiple cues,'' in Advances in Computer Vision, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 115-163, 1988.
      2.  J. Aloimonos and D. Shulman, Integration of Visual Modules: An Extension of the Marr Paradigm, Academic Press, Boston, 1989.
      3.  J. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld, ``Visual Recovery,'' in S. Shapiro (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley, 1992.
      4.  Y. Aloimonos (Ed.), Active Perception, Vol. I of Advances in Computer Vision series, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
      5.  Y. Aloimonos, ``Active Vision Revisited,'' in Y. Aloimonos (Ed.), Active Perception, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
      6.  Y. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld, ``Principles of Computer Vision,'' in T. Young (Ed.), Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Vol. 2, Academic Press, 1993.
      7.  T. Dean, J. Allen and Y. Aloimonos, Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice (textbook), The Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., Menlo Park, 1994.
      8.  Y. Aloimonos (Ed.), Visual Navigation: From Biological Systems to Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Vol. II of Advances in Computer Vision series, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
      9.  Y. Aloimonos (Ed.), Visual Recognition for Robotic Agents, Vol. III of Advances in Computer Vision series, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997, to appear.
      10.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``The Synthesis of Vision and Action,'' in M. Landy (Ed.), Exploratory Vision: The Active Eye, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
      11.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Primates, Bees and UGV's in Motion,'' in S. Srinivasan and V. Venkatesh (Eds.), From Living Eyes to Seeing Machines, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
      12.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Direct Motion Perception,'' in Visual Navigation: From Biological Systems to Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Vol. II of Advances in Computer Vision, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
      13.  Y. Aloimonos, ``Visual Navigation: Flies, Bees and UGV's,'' in Visual Navigation: From Biological Systems to Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Vol. II of Advances in Computer Vision, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
      14.  R. Bolle, Y. Aloimonos, and C. Fermüller, ``Video Representations,'' invited paper in ACCV'95, in S.Z. Li (Ed.), Future Directions in Computer Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, in press.
      15.  C. Fermüller, L. Cheong and Y. Aloimonos, ``Geometry of Visual Space Distortion,'' in J.J. Koenderink and G. Sommer (Eds.), Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
      16.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Active Perception,'' in Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Wiley, 1999, in press.
      17. C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Geometry of Eye Design: Biology and Technology,'' in Multi Image Search and Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, R. Klette, T. Huang and G. Gimelfarb, (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2000.
      18. J. Neumann, C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Animated Heads: From 3D Motion Fields to Action Descriptions,'' in Deformable Avatars, N. and D. Thalmann (Eds.), Kluwer, pg. 1--12, 2001.
      19. B. Stuart, P. Baker and Y. Aloimonos, ``Towards the Ultimate Motion Capture Technology,'' in Deformable Avatars, N. and D. Thalmann (Eds.), Kluwer, 2001.
      20.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Statistics Explains Geometrical Optical Illusions,'' in L. S. Davis (Ed.), Foundations of Image Understanding, Kluwer, 2001.

        21.  
    2. Articles in Refereed Journals
      1. C.M. Brown, J. Aloimonos, A. Basu, ``Contour, texture, shape and motion,'' Pattern Recognition Letters 5, 151-168, North Holland, 1987.
      2.  J. Aloimonos, ``Shape from texture,'' Biological Cybernetics 58, 345-360, 1988.
      3.  J. Aloimonos and M. Swain, ``Shape from patterns: Regularization,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 2, 171-187, 1988.
      4.  J. Aloimonos, I. Weiss and A. Bandyopadhyay, ``Active vision,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 1, 333-356, 1988.
      5.  J. Aloimonos, ``Visual shape computation,'' Proceedings of the IEEE 76, 899-916, 1988.
      6.  D. Shulman and J. Aloimonos, ``Nonrigid motion interpretation: A regularized approach,'' Proc. Royal Society of London B 233, 217-234, 1988.
      7.  R. Nelson and J. Aloimonos, ``Finding motion parameters from spherical flow fields (or the advantages of having eyes in the back of your head),'' Biological Cybernetics 58, 261-273, 1988.
      8.  R. Nelson and J Aloimonos, ``Using flow field divergence for obstacle avoidance in visual navigation,'' IEEE Transactions on PAMI 11, 1102-1106, 1989.
      9.  J. Aloimonos and C.M. Brown, ``On the kinetic depth effect,'' Biological Cybernetics 60, 445-455, 1989.
      10.  J. Aloimonos and D. Shulman, ``Learning early vision computations,'' Journal of the Optical Society of America A 6, 906-914, 1989.
      11.  J. Aloimonos, ``Unifying shading and texture through an active observer,'' Proc. Royal Society of London B 238, 25-37, 1989.
      12.  A. Basu and J. Aloimonos, ``A robust, correspondenceless, translation-determining algorithm,'' International Journal of Robotics Research 9, 35-59, 1990.
      13.  J. Aloimonos and J.-Y. Hervé, ``Correspondenceless detection of depth and motion for a planar surface,'' IEEE Transactions on PAMI 12, 504-510, 1990.
      14.  M. Spetsakis and J. Aloimonos, ``Structure from motion using line correspondences,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 4, 171-183, 1990.
      15.  J. Aloimonos, ``Perspective approximations,'' Image and Vision Computing 8, 177-192, 1990.
      16.  J. Aloimonos and L. Huang, ``Motion-boundary illusions,'' Proc. Royal Society of London B 242, 75-81, 1990.
      17.  A. Bandopadhay and J. Aloimonos, ``Image motion estimation by clustering,'' International Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 2, 345-355, 1990.
      18.  J. Aloimonos and D. Tsakiris, ``On the visual mathematics of tracking,'' Image and Vision Computing 9, 235-251, 1991.
      19.  J. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld, ``Reply: A response to ''Ignorance, Myopia and Naivete in Computer Vision`` by R.C. Jain and T.O. Binford,'' CVGIP 53, 120-124, 1991.
      20.  M. Spetsakis and J. Aloimonos, ``A multiframe approach to visual motion perception,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 6, 245-255, 1991.
      21.  J. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld, ``Computer vision,'' Science 253, 1181-1324, 1991.
      22.  R. Sharma and J. Aloimonos, ``Coordinated motion planning: The warehouseman's problem with constraints on free space,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 22, 130-141, 1992.
      23.  M. Spetsakis and Y. Aloimonos, ``Optimal computing of structure from motion using point correspondences in two frames,'' IEEE Transactions on PAMI 14, 959-964, 1992.
      24.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Tracking facilitates 3-D motion estimation,'' Biological Cybernetics 67, 259-268, 1992.
      25.  Y. Aloimonos, ``Is complete visual recovery necessary? Obstacle avoidance without passive ranging,'' Journal of Robotic Systems 9, 843-858, 1992.
      26.  Y. Aloimonos, (Ed.), Purposive and Qualitative Active Vision, Special Issue of CVGIP: Image Understanding 56, 1992.
      27.  Y. Aloimonos, ``Purposive active vision,'' CVGIP: Image Understanding, 840-850, August 1992.
      28.  R. Sharma, D. Mount, and Y. Aloimonos, ``Probabilistic analysis of some navigation strategies in a dynamic environment,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 23(5):1465-1474, September 1993.
      29.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``The role of fixation on visual motion analysis,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 11, 165-186, 1993.
      30.  L. Huang and Y. Aloimonos, ``How normal flow constrains relative depth for an active observer,'' Image and Vision Computing 12, 435-445, September 1994.
      31.  Y. Aloimonos, ``What I have learned,'' CVGIP: Image Understanding, 74-85, July 1994.
      32.  Y. Aloimonos and Z. Duric, ``Estimating the heading direction using normal flow,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 13(1), 33-56, 1994.
      33.  Y. Aloimonos, ``Qualitative vision,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 14, 115-117, 1995.
      34.  Y. Aloimonos (Ed.), Special Issue on Qualitative Vision, International Journal of Computer Vision 14, 115-201, 1995.
      35.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Qualitative egomotion,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 15, 7-29, 1995.
      36.  C. Fermüller and Y Aloimonos, ``Vision and action,'' Image and Vision Computing 13, 725-744, 1995.
      37.  S. Negahdaripour, B.Y. Hayashi, and Y. Aloimonos, ``Direct motion stereo for passive navigation,'' IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 11(6):829-843, December 1995.
      38.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Direct perception of three-dimensional motion from patterns of visual motion,'' Science 270, 1973-1976, 1995.
      39.  Y. Aloimonos, C. Fermüller, and A. Rosenfeld, ``Seeing and understanding: Representing the visual world,'' ACM Computing Surveys 27(3):307-309, 1995.
      40.  R. Sharma and Y. Aloimonos, ``Early detection of independent motion from active control of normal image flow patterns,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 26(2), February 1996.
      41.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``On the geometry of visual correspondence,'' International Journal of Computer Vision 21(3):223-247, 1997.
      42.  C. Fermüller, R. Pless and Y. Aloimonos, ``Families of stationary patterns producing illusory movement: Insights into the visual system,'' Proc. Royal Society of London B 264:795-806, 1997.
      43.  L. Cheong, C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Effects of errors in the viewing geometry on shape estimation,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding 71:356-372, 1998.
      44.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Ambiguity in structure from motion: Sphere versus plane,'' Int'l. Journal of Computer Vision 28(2):137-154, 1998.
      45.  C. Fermüller, L. Cheong and Y. Aloimonos, ``Visual space distortion,'' Biological Cybernetics 77:323-337, 1997.
      46.  C. Fermüller, L. Cheong and Y. Aloimonos, ``3D motion and shape representations in visual servo control,'' Int'l. Journal of Robotics Research 17:4-18, 1998.
      47.  T. Brodsky, C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Directions of Motion Fields are Hardly Ever Ambiguous,'' Int'l. Journal of Computer Vision 26:5-24, 1998.
      48.  Y. Aloimonos and C. Fermüller, ``On the Cognitive Impenetrability of Visual Space,'' a commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22:366-367, 1999.
      49.  C. Fermüller, R. Pless and Y. Aloimonos, ``The Ouchi illusion as an artifact of biased flow estimation,'' Vision Research 40:77-96, 2000.
      50.  C. Fermüller, Y. Aloimonos and T. Brodsky, ``New Eyes for Building Models from Video,'' Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 15(1-3):3-23, 2000.
      51.  C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Observability of 3D Motion,'' Int'l. Journal of Computer Vision 37(1):43-62, June 2000.
      52.  T. Brodsky, C. Fermüller and Y. Aloimonos, ``Structure from Motion: Beyond the Epipolar Constraint,'' Int'l. Journal of Computer Vision 37(3):231-258, June 2000.
      53. R. Pless, T. Brodsky and Y. Aloimonos, ``Detecting Independent Motion: The Statistics of Temporal Continuity,'' IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 22(8):768-773, August 2000.
      54.  C. Fermüller, D. Shulman and Y. Aloimonos, ``The Statistics of Optical Flow,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding 82:1-32, 2001.
      55. C. Fermüller, P. Baker and Y. Aloimonos ``Visual Space Time Geometry: A Tool for Perception and Imagination,'' Proceedings of the IEEE, 90(5):1113-1135, July 2002.
      56. J. Neumann, C. Fermuller and Y. Aloimonos, "A hierarchy of cameras for 3D photography", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 274-293,December 2004.
      57. J. Neumann and Y. Aloimonos, "Spatiotemporal stereo using multiresolution subdivision surfaces", International Journal of Computer Vision,47(1/2/3):181-193, 2002.
      58. Y. Aloimonos, "Computational video", The Visual Computer, 19(6): 355-359 (2003).
      59. A. S. Ogale, C. Fermüller, and Y. Aloimonos " Motion segmentation using occlusions", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 27, no.6, 988-992, June 2005.
      60. A. S. Ogale and Y. Aloimonos, " Shape and the stereo correspondence problem", International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 65, no. 1, October 2005.
      61. A. S. Ogale and Y. Aloimonos, " A roadmap to the integration of early visual modules", International Journal of Computer Vision, Special issue on early cognitive vision, in press.

      Click here for a list of recent papers.

      VI    Ph.D. Students Supervised

        1. Randal C. Nelson. Thesis: ``Visual navigation'' (completed August 1988). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, NY.
        2.  Minas E. Spetsakis. Thesis: ``The geometry and statistics of visual motion'' (completed August 1989). Currently Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada.
        3.  John Sullins. Thesis: ``Distributed learning: Motion in constraint space'' (completed May 1990). Currently Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Youngstown University, OH.
        4.  Anup Basu. Thesis: ``Model-based visual navigation'' (completed August 1990). Currently Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
        5.  David Shulman. ``A theory of discontinuous regularization'' (completed August 1990). Currently Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
        6.  Ehud Rivlin. Thesis: ``Purposive recognition'' (completed December 1992). Currently Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
        7.  Larry Huang. Thesis: ``Qualitative visuo-motor coordination'' (completed March 1993). Currently Vice President, General Computing Systems, Silver Spring, Maryland.
        8.  Jean-Yves Hervé. Thesis: ``A theory of hand/eye coordination'' (completed March 1993). Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.
        9.  Rajeev Sharma. Thesis: ``Visual interception'' (completed March 1993). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University.
        10.  LoongFah Cheong. Thesis: ``Distortion of space due to perceived motion'' (completed August 1996). Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore.
        11.  Gregory Baratoff. Thesis: ``Qualitative space representations extracted from stereo'' (completed June 1997). Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany.
        12.  Tomas Brodsky. Thesis: ``The Video Yardstick'' (completed March 1999). Currently at Philips Research Laboratory, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
        13.  Robert Pless. Thesis: ``Visual shape'' (completed August 2001). Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
        14.  Bradley Stuart. Thesis: ``Visual memories'' (in preparation).
        15.  Abhijit Ogale. Thesis: ``The compositional character of visual correspondence'' (completed 2004). Currently at the University of Maryland.
        16.  Patrick Baker. Thesis: ``Video Manipulation'' (completed January 2005). Currently at NRL.
        17.  Jan Neumann. Thesis: ``Eye Design'' (completed 2004). Currently at Siemens Corporate Research
        18.  Gutemberg Guerra. Thesis: ``A language for motor action'' (expected completion:2007).
        19.  Justin Domke. Thesis: ``A probabilistic approach to visual correspondence'' (expected completion:2008).
        20.  Alap Karapurkar. Thesis: ``A language for visual action'' (expected completion:2008).

        M.S. Students Supervised

           Dimitri Tsakiris. Thesis: ``Visual tracking strategies'' (Completed June 1988).
      Revised 2001/10/23 by
      Sara Larson