Aaron J. Heller, Senior Computer Scientist Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave., Rm. EK264 Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 my mailing address in USPS format

E-Mail: heller@ai.sri.com Voice: +1 (650) 859-2618 Fax: +1 (650) 859-3735 PGP: 0FBFECE9

Research Interests

• 3-D Reconstruction
• Image Processing and 3-D Feature Extraction
• Photogrammetry and Cartography
• Model-based Object Recognition
• Projective Invariants
• Object-Oriented Design Methodologies and Languages
  • Lisp/CLOS -- the first ANSI-standard object-oriented computer language (X3.226-1994)

Current Projects

• Video Verification of Identity (VIVID)
• Exploitation of 3-D Data (E3D)

Completed Projects

• Automated Poplulation of Geospatial Databases (APGD) (principal investigator) [DARPA/ISO; NIMA/TERR]
• Batttlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) (co-principal investigtor) [DARPA/ISO]
• Semi-Automated IMINT Processing (SAIP) (principal investigator) [DARPA/ISO; NIMA]
• Research and Development for Image Understanding Systems (RADIUS) (principal investigator) [DARPA/SISTO; ORD]
• Rapid Construction of Virtual Worlds (RCVW) [DARPA/SISTO; Army/TEC]
• Spatial Image Annotation System (SIAS)

Software Systems

• 3DIUS (3D Image Understanding System)
  • VRML translations of some 3DIUS site models
• RCDE (RADIUS Common Development Environment)

Representative Publications

• `The Evolution and Testing of a Model-Based Object Recognition System,'' Proc. IEEE Third International Conference on Computer Vision, Osaka, Japan, 1990.
  Also in Computer Vision: Advances & Applicatons, Rangachar Kasturi and Ramesh C. Jain (Eds.). Los Alimitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. 1991.

• `An Experimental Evaluation of Projective Invariants,'' Proc. First Joint DARPA-ESPRIT Workshop on Applications of Invariance in Computer Vision, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1991.
  Also in Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision, Joseph L. Mundy and Andrew P. Zisserman (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1992.

• `Invariant Descriptors for 3D Object Recognition and Pose,'' IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 10, p. 971, 1991.

• `An Object-Oriented Approach to Template-Guided Visual Inspection,'' Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Champaign, IL, 1992.

• `The Site-Model Construction Component of the RADIUS Testbed System,'' Proc. ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Palm Springs, CA, 1996.
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• `The RADIUS Common Development Environment,'' RADIUS: Image Understanding for Imagery Intelligence, Oscar Firschein and Tom Strat (Eds.). San Mateo (CA): Morgan Kaufmann. 1997.
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• `Using RADIUS Site-Models without the RCDE,'' Proc DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, New Orleans, LA, 1997.
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Patents and Other Artifacts

• 4521865: Programmable Function Generator
• Computer Vision Bibliography
• All Music Guide (and in Russian).
• MSN Music
• Artist Direct
• Discogs
• MSN Music
• Commercial releases with my recordings: here, here here, here, here, here here, here, and here.
  (you can hear short excerpts of most of these at Amazon's and Tower Records' websites)
• National broadcasts of my recordings: here, here, here.
• Linux User 27175

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