Professor Octavia Camps

Vitae

Dr. Camps' areas of research are in Computer Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. She is currently conducting research on robust 3D object recognition from images, vision-based aircraft navigation, and 3D model reconstruction from sensed data using purposive vision. This work has been continuously funded since 1993 by the National Science Foundation, NASA Ames Research Center and industry, and resulted in a NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993. Results of these research efforts are part of three Master Papers, four Master Theses, three Ph.D. dissertations already completed, and two Ph.D. dissertations currently in progress. They have also been published in archival journals, three book chapters and several refereed international conferences. Dr. Camps is a co-founder of the Center for Intelligent Information Processing (CIIP) at Penn State, where she conducts research on automated understanding systems in collaboration with faculty from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and industry engineers from HRB-Systerns Inc.

During the academic year 1996-1997, she has received further funding from NSF, to continue her work on object recognition, as a sole Pl. This grant allows her to fund three graduate students for the next three years. During this year, Dr. Camps also received a grant, in collaboration with Dr. Kasturi (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering), from NASA Ames Research center to continue her work on obstacle avoidance for aircraft navigation. This grant also supports three graduate students that are co-advised by both principal investigators. Furthermore, as part. of this research effort, Dr. Camps spent two weeks at NASA Ames during May 1997. During the months of June to August 1997 Dr. Camps was also a Summer Visiting Research Faculty at the Air Force Wright Research Laboratory, where she conducted research on texture segmentation for automatic target detection. AFOSR funding to pursue this line of research is currently pending.

Since her arrival to Penn State, Dr. Camps has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Using funds from the "Tuition Surcharge Program" from Penn State, she has developed the Signals and Systems Instructional Workstation Laboratory for use in graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of Signals and Systems, and the Digital Image Acquisition Laboratory for use in the Image Processing and Computer Vision classes.

During the academic year 1996-1997, she has developed web sites for two undergraduate and one graduate courses in Image Processing and Computer Vision. This effort resulted on a paper that was presented in an IEEE sponsored workshop on education in computer vision, held during June 1997.

Dr. Camps is the co-editor of the Special Issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding on CAD-Based Vision to appear in March 1998, and was an invited panelist at the Latino Leadership Conference at Penn State in March 1996 and at the NSF-ARPA Workshop on 3D Object Representation in Computer Vision in December 1994. Dr. Camps has served as reviewer and panelist for the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER panel, as a reviewer for multiple journals and conferences, as session chairperson at several conferences in her field, and as a member of the program committee for the 1994, 1997, and 1998 IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conferences.

Dr. Camps is a member of the IEEE (Computer, Robotics and Automation, and Signal Processing Societies), the American Society for Engineering Education, and of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor society.