Jason Campbell
4720 Forbes Ave. Suite 410
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 297-4100
(412) 297-4110 (fax)Biography
Jason is a Senior Researcher at Intel Labs Pittsburgh and works on the Dynamic Physical Rendering project and on vision-based guidance of mobile robots. His research interests include sensor networks, autonomous robotics, distributed systems, embedded computing, and computer vision. Previously he served as a senior executive in several startup companies, including as Chief Technical Officer of Zack Systems and as VP Technology of Strategic Economic Decisions, Inc. Jason has worked as a manger, programmer, and consultant with a wide variety of firms in the fields of high-technology, finance, economic forecasting, commercial printing, and manufacturing, and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Research Efforts
Dynamic Physical Rendering
Visual Odometry and Visual Navigation for Automous Mobile Robots
Robot-Photographer
Hybrid Fixed/Mobile Sensor Networks
Multimedia Storage, Search, and Interpretation
Software
Visual Odometry Code and Test Data (coming soon)
Publications and Presentations
Conference Paper: Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai. "Leveraging Limited Autonomous Mobility to Frame Attractive Group Photos", to appear in Proceedings of ICRA2005, April 2005, Barcelona.
Conference Paper: Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, Illah Nourbakhsh, Aroon Pahwa. "A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision", to appear in Proceedings of ICRA2005, April 2005, Barcelona.
Demo: Jason Campbell and Padmanabhan Pillai. "The Robot Photographer", Intel Labs Pittsburgh Open House, August 24, 2004.
Poster PDF [65KB] Website link
Demo: Jason Campbell, Aroon Pahwa, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Rahul Sukthankar. "Visual Odometry Using Commodity Optical Flow", Intel Labs Pittsburgh Open House, August 24, 2004.
Poster PDF [3MB]
Workshop Paper: Padmanabhan Pillai, Yan Ke, Jason Campbell. "Multi-fidelity Storage", ACM 2nd Int'l Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks. PDF [120KB]
Workshop Paper: Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai. "Forensic Video Reconstruction", ACM 2nd Int'l Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks. PDF [360KB]
Conference Paper: Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, Illah Nourbakhsh. "Techniques for Evaluating Optical Flow for Visual Odometry in Extreme Terrain", Proceedings of IROS2004, October 2004, Sendai. PDF [1MB]
Demo: Jason Campbell, Aroon Pahwa, Rahul Sukthankar, and Illah Nourbakhsh. "Visual Odometry Using Commodity Optical Flow", Intelligent Systems Demonstrations at AAAI 2004 (The 19th National Conference on Artifical Intelligence), July 2004, San Jose.
Demo overview published in the conference proceedings PDF [128K]
Poster PDF [2MB]
Demo: "IrisNet", Research at Intel Day, May 2004, Santa Clara.
Posters PDF PDF PDF
Demo: Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, and Illah Nourbakhsh. "Exploring Vision as a Basic Navigational Sensor", Intel Labs Pittsburgh Open House, October ??, 2003.
Poster PDF [750K]
Other Links
Jason Campbell -- Personal Homepage
Jason Campbell -- CMU Homepage
Intel Labs Pittsburgh Homepage
CMU Robotics Institute Homepage
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