Robert T. Collins
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering Department
The Pennsylvania State University

Email: rcollins at cse dot psu dot edu

Background

My research area is Computer Vision, with current emphasis on video scene understanding, human body segmentation, activity analysis, and real-time tracking. I teach courses in the CSE and EE departments at PSU on Computer Vision and Image Processing, and run the CSE Laboratory for Perception, Action and Cognition (LPAC).

Since Jan 2005: Associate Professor, CSE Department, Penn State University.
1996-2004: Research Faculty, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
1994-1996: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
1994: Ph.D., CS Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Recent News

I've accepted invitations to be an area chair for CVPR2009 and for ICCV2009.
Our new lab web page is up! Go to http://vision.cse.psu.edu/lpac/lpac.htm
Three patents were finally awarded for work we performed at CMU on the EyeVision system.
- United States Patent 7,027,083 "System and method for servoing on a moving fixation point within a dynamic scene" awarded April 11, 2006 to inventors Kanade, Collins, Amidi, Miller, and Hua.
- United States Patent 7,102,666 "System and method for stabilizing rotational images" awarded Sept 5, 2006 to inventors Takeo Kanade and Robert Collins.
- United States Patent 7,106,361 "System and method for manipulating the point of interest in a sequence of images" awarded Sept 12, 2006 to inventors Takeo Kanade and Robert Collins.

In November 2005 I co-chaired a workshop on "Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environments" with Chris Jaynes from University of Kentucky. The proceedings is now available from IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2524-5. Read our introduction to learn more about the workshop topics and presentations.