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James L. Crowley directs the PRIMA Research Project group at the INRIA Rhone-Alpes research center in Montbonnot (near Grenoble), France. He holds the post of Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), where he teaches courses in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at l'ENSIMAG (Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliquées). From 2003 through 2006, Professor Crowley has served as director for the UMR GRAVIR laboratory (UMR 5527 CNRS, INPG, UJF, INRIA). Professor Crowley has edited two books, five special issues of journals, and authored over 180 articles on computer vision and mobile robotics. He ranks number 1473 in the CiteSeers (July 2006) most cited authors in Computer Science with over 2850 Citations (Google Scholar Jan 2007) and an H Number of 30 (Citations Histogram).
In the last 25 years, professeur Crowley has made fundamental contributions to computer vision and mobile robtics. These include early innovations in multi-resolution and multi-scale computer vision, position estimation, perception and navigation for mobile robots, architecture for autonomous systems, multi-sensor fusion, robust tracking for observing human activity, appearance-based techniques for object recognition and navigation, and observation and modeling of human activity for context aware environments and ambient informatics.
Professor Crowley directs INRIA Project PRIMA. Project PRIMA has as its goal the development of techniques for observation of human action, with applications to interactive environments and new forms of man-machine interaction. Project PRIMA investigates techniques for visual perception and recognition based on representations of local appearance. The project is currently applying these techniques to problems of object recognition, recognition of faces and facial experssions, gesture recognition, and recognition of human activities. Project PRIMA currently participates in the European IST Project CHIL Computers in the Human Interaction Loop. Over the last few years, Project PRIMA has participated in the European IST Projects
In 2003, along with collaborators Pierre de la Salle, Jean Viscomte, Stephane Richetto and Pierre-Jean Riviere, Professor Crowley founded the start-up company Blue Eye Video. Blue Eye Video markets software for observation of human activity.
From 1994 to 1998, Prof. Crowley served coordinator ot the European Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), the EC "Network of Excellence" in Computer Vision. From 1993 to 2001, Professor Crowley coordinated the marie-Curie networks SMART and SMART II whose subject was the development of techniques for surveillance and monitoring. He has served as the technical coordinator of project ESPRIT basic research project BRA 3038/EP 7108, "Vision as Process" from 1989 to 1995. He has participated in a total of 14 European Projects since 1986 including the early FP II project P940 "Depth and Motion Analysis".
Professor Crowley was one of the founders of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy in 1980. From 1982 to 1985 he directed the Laboratory for Household Robotics at CMU, where he developed systems for world modeling and navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range sensors. Versions of these systems have been used in several commercial mobile robots.
Most of these papers are .pdf formated for European A4 paper
Doctoral Thesis, "A Representation for Visual Information", CMU-RI-TR-82-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1981. (US 8-1/2 by 11)
List of Journal Papers.(Updated 30 July 2006)
List of Papers in International Conferences and Symposia.(Updated 2 August 2006)
List of Papers in Workshops.(Updated 15 August 2004)
List of Books and book chapters.(Updated 25 May 1996)
List of Selected Tutorials.(Updated 1 December 1996)
Course Notes from classes taught in 1996/2004 (in French).
Doctoral Students Directed
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