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Dr. Martin Herman is Chief of the Information Access Division (IAD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. He currently has responsibility for the overall program in research, measurements, testing, and standards in the area of information access at NIST. He manages a program with a total annual budget of over $9 million and approximately 60 researchers and support staff. The program focuses on speech processing and human language technology, document and multimedia information retrieval, image recognition, visualization, usability evaluation, and smart spaces. Dr. Herman has more than 29 years of experience in research and research management in the information technology field. From 1986 to 1997, he was Group Leader of the Perception Systems Group at NIST, where he was |
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responsible for research projects in real-time active vision, robot mobility and navigation, world modeling, real-time planning, multisensor integration for navigation and industrial inspection, visual servoing of sensor probes, and advanced control systems for next generation inspection machines.
From 1980 to 1985, he held a faculty appointment in the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Here, he engaged in research in computer vision and image understanding, focusing on 3-D interpretation of complex aerial images and 3-D analysis of range data. Early in his career, he was with the Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland, and with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Herman received the B.S. degree in physics from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Herman has published over 90 papers in journals, conferences, books and magazines. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision in1992, was a Guest Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Special Issue on Unmanned Vehicle and Intelligent Robotic Systems in1990, and a Guest Editor for the Vision Quarterly, Machine Vision Association/Society of Manufacturing Engineers Issue on Calibration and Performance of Machine Vision Systems in1988. Dr. Herman received the Association for Computing Machinery Samuel N. Alexander Award for outstanding graduate student in Computer Science in the Washington, D.C. area in 1978. He was awarded a four-year New York State Scholarship and won a highly competitive admission to a tuition-free undergraduate college.
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