James L. Crowley, Professeur Emeritus, Grenoble I.N.P.

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Research Activities:

James L. Crowley  is a Professor  Emeritus of the Institut  Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP). Prior to October 2021, he taught  courses in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at ENSIMAG (Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliquées), and directed the Pervasive Interaction research team at INRIA Grenoble Reserch Center. In 2019 he was appointed to the chair of Collaborative Intelligent Systems, at the Univ Grenoble Alpes Multidisciplinary AI Institute (Miai) where he remains active in research on Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction. His current research combines multi-modal perception with cognitive modeling to explore new forms of interaction with intelligent systems using multimodal Transformers trained with self-supervised learning.

Over the last 35 years, Professeur Crowley has made a number of fundamental contributions to computer vision, mobile robtics and multi-modal interaction. These include early innovations in view invariant computer vision, position estimation, mapping and navigation for mobile robots, architectures for autonomous systems,  robust tracking, appearance-based techniques for visual perception, and observation of human activity for context aware environments and ambient informatics. He has co-edited two books, five special issues of journals, and authored over 300 articles on computer vision and mobile robotics, with over 15,400 Academic Citations (Google Scholar) and an h-index of 59.

In Sept. 2011, James Crowley was appointed as Senior Member of the l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
In Mar. 2014, James Crowley was named Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite.
In Oct 2018 James Crowley received the ICMI Award for Sustained Contribution to Multimodal Interaction.

From 2012 to 2020,  he directed of the  Amiqual4Home innovation platform, funded by the  EquipExprogram of the French "Programme d'Investissement d'Avenir" in collaboration with INRIA Grenoble Research Center and the Univ Grenoble Alpes.

In 2008, Professor Crowley oversaw the creation of the Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble (MoSIG). The MoSIG program offers a 2 year, European Standard, English-language,  Master of Science with specialisations in Graphics-Vision-Robotics, AI and the Web, Ubiquitous Interactive Systems, Parallel Distributed  Systems, Software Engineering, and High Performance Embedded Systems.

From 1994 to 1998, Prof. Crowley served as coordinator of 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 first research faculty hired in January 1980 for the  Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. 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.

Diplomas

Ph.D, 1982, Carnegie-Mellon University
M.Sc, 1977, Carnegie-Mellon University
B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1975, Southern Methodist University

Recent Administrative Responsabilities

• Elected Member of the administrative council of the ComUE Univ Grenoble-Alpes (2016 - 2019)
  
• Member of the  Habilitation Committee for Informatics and Applied Mathematics of  University of Grenoble-Alpes. (2012 - 2019)
  
• Member of the Comité d’Orientation du Pôle de Compétitivité Minalogic (2012 - 2019)
  
• Member of executive committee (Bureau) of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (UMR UGA/CNRS LIG)
  
• Co-Director of Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble (MoSIG) (2008 - 2019)
• Member of the Scientific Committee (CoS) of INRIA GRA
• Vice-Président of administrative council of ENSIMAG (président du conseil restreint).
  
• Elected member of the administrative council of  l'UMR LIG - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory
• President of the Research Direction Habilitation Committee of  ENSIMAG. 
• Délégué adjoint of the Association GRILOG (Grenoble-Isère Logiciel)
• Directeur du Laboratoire GRAVIR (INP/UJF/CNRS UMR 5527) de 2003 à 2006

Scientific Activities:

1. Member of the Steering committee for the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
   
2. Founding member of the European Computer Vision Society (1990).
   
3. General Chair or Co-Chair for the following International Conferences:
   • ICMI-MLMI 2009, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Cambridge Mass, Oct 2009
   • SOC-EUSAI 2005, 3rd Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence, Grenoble Oct 2005.
   • FG 2000, IEEE Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, March 2000
   • ICVS 99, International Conference on Vision Systems,  Las Palmas, Jan 99
4. Program co-Chairman for the following Conferences:
   • ICVS 2011, International Conference on Vision Systems, Sophia Antipolis
   • AMI 2008, 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Nuremberg, Nov 2008
   • ICVS 2003, International Conference on Vision Systems, Graz, April 2003.
   • ICPR 2000, Bacelona, Spain, September 2000.
   • ICPR '96, Vienna, Austria, August 96.
   • Program Co-Chair for Vision and Robotics, 1999 IEEE CVPR, Fort Collins, June 1999.
5. Area Chair/Editor for International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE-ICRA) in  2009,  2010
   
6. Publications Chairman, I.R.O.S '97, Grenoble, September 1997.
   
7. General Chairman of Symposium on Robotics Systems: SIRS '93 (Zakopane) SIRS '94 (Grenoble), SIRS '95 (Pisa), SIRS '96 (Lisbon) and SIRS '97 (Stockholm).
8. Member of program commitee or reviewer for over 150 scientific conferences in Computer Vision, Robotics, AI amd Multi-Modal Interaction since 1988.
   

Publications

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)

Some earlier Journal Papers.(Updated 25 Dec 2009)

Some earlier Papers  in International Conferences and Symposia.(Updated 25 Dec 2009)

Some earlier Papers in Workshops.(Updated 15 August 2004)

List of Books and book chapters.(Updated 25 May 1996)

Course Notes from classes taught in 1996/2018 (in French and English).

Doctoral Students Directed

Hobbies

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