Stan Birchfield Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Clemson University After receiving a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999, I worked on intelligent digital audio and video at Quindi Corporation (a startup company in Palo Alto, California) for several years.  I joined the faculty at Clemson in 2003.

Research

In order for autonomous agents to interact with the real world, they must be able to sense the three-dimensional space around them. This is the focus of my research, namely to enable computer-based systems to automatically extract information about their surroundings from sensor data.  Along with my students and colleagues, I research various topics in visual motion, spatial acoustics, and mobile robotics. 

Complete list of Publications and Students

Joint feature tracking	Low-resolution navigation	Door detection
Motion segmentation	Mobile robot navigation	Vehicle tracking
Minirhizotron image analysis	Head tracking	Acoustic localization
Multiway-cut stereo	Pixel-based stereo	Microphone calibration
	Motion discontinuities

Financial support from the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged:

• National Science Foundation
• National Institute for Medical Informatics, Medical Media Lab
• James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center of South Carolina State University

• Computer Systems Structures (ECE 329) [Fall 2007 -- Fall 2006 -- Fall 2005]
• Digital Image Processing (ECE 847) [Fall 2007 -- Fall 2006 -- Fall 2005 -- Fall 2004]
• Computer Vision Seminar (ECE 904)  [Spring 2008 -- Fall 2007 -- Spring 2007 -- Fall 2006 -- Spring 2006 -- Fall 2005 -- Spring 2005 -- Fall 2004 -- Spring 2004 -- Fall 2003]
• Computer Vision (ECE 877) [Spring 2008 -- Spring 2007 -- Spring 2006 -- Spring 2005]
• Software Engineering (ECE 417/617)  [Spring 2008 -- Spring 2007 -- Spring 2006 -- Spring 2005 -- Spring 2004]
• Organization of Computers (ECE 429/629)  [Fall 2004 -- Fall 2003]

An Introduction to Projective Geometry

Software

• Blepo:  Computer vision library in C/C++
• Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracker: Feature detection and tracking library in C
• Rootfly: Software application for minirhizotron image analysis
• Seebreeze:  Software application for wind data visualization

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