Carl F.R. Weiman, Ph. D. http://carl_weiman.tripod.com/ cweiman@optonline.net

CURRENT POSITION: Adjunct Associate Professor,  Fairfield University, School of Engineering, developing 3D applications for public use on the web via Java WebStart application Weiman - Iterated Transformations. This program applies to art, math, engineering, chaos theory, biology, robotics and String Theory, with no knowledge of math nor programming required. Instructions for downloading and running this program are presented in this link.

RECENT POSITION: Visiting Professor,  The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.  Co-designed and team-taught with Profs. Adrianne Wortzel and Liselot van der Heijden, new course  "Robotic Visions and Theater" in Spring of '99, a collaboration between artists and engineers.  Principal Investigator with co-PI's Professors Adrianne Wortzel and Stan Wei, NSF Grant DUE-9980873, $100,000, titled  "Robotic Renaissance".   Team teaching with Professor Adrianne Wortzel, new course we designed at Cooper Union in Fall '00,  "Equally Avatar: Humans, Machines and Virtual Beings".

OBJECTIVES: Creative-communicative position in new product development, technology assessment, or industry-education technology commercialization efforts related to image communication, generation, processing and storage. Business area flexible (e.g., biomedical, web, databases, video).

TALENTS:

• Interdisciplinary Technology Innovation
• Prototyped and patented 1,000-to-1 video compression system for remote vehicle operation, based on human visual channels.
• Patented novel sensor based robot navigation systems now in commercial operation.
• Designed and implemented highly parallel image rendering techniques for flight simulation.
• Proposed, wrote, and executed more than $2M in government research contracts during past 8 years, ranging from image compression to robot navigation.
• Experience, skill in oral and written presentation ranging from technical, legal through sales.

TOOL USAGE SKILLS: MS Office, Excel, Mathematica. Attended seminars in HTML, VLSI, fuzzy logic. Java API's, Intellij IDE.

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

• NASA Certificate of Recognition, May 17, 1991, related to Nasa Tech Brief pub "Method and means for recognizing patterns represented in logarithmic polar coordinates"
• Award of Excellence from Survey Sampling Incorporated 1984, for Systems organization
• Reviewed papers for IEEE
• Served on NSF review panels for research grants to Universities
• Guest seminar presentations at Yale University, Univ of Pennsylvania, New York University
• Chaired sessions at SPIE Conferences, 1990.

PRIOR POSITION: (Aug '85 - Aug '97) Director of Research, HelpMate Robotics Inc, (Note: named changed from Transitions Research Corp with IPO in 1996). Wrote proposals and developed new technologies which led to the company's current status as world leader in commercial mobile robot navigation technology and market share. Sole or principal inventor on more than half the company's patents, on technologies related to robot navigation, image compression. Wrote first drafts and managed submission process of all company patents. Personally responsible for proposing, winning and executing as Principal Investigator, two million dollars in research contracts from NASA, National Science Foundation, and the U. S. Army.

In the past two years, my assignments shifted from technology innovation to sales of robotic components to the research community. I doubled sales in the past twelve months.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

• '84-'85 Freelance consultant in computer graphics, image processing:
• Martin-Marietta helicopter simulation (Orlando)
• Survey Sampling Incorporated, Geographic databases (Westport CT)
• National Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), PIPE vision computer
• '78-'83 Advanced Technologies Systems Engineer for General Electric Flight Simulation, Daytona Beach (Now Lockeed-Martin, Orlando FLA)
• '74-'77 Assistant Prof, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Math & Computer Science
• '73 Visiting Assistant Prof, Courant Institute, New York University Computer Science Dept. Co-invented with George Chaikin, the concept of using log-polar image plane coordinates for computer graphics and robot vision.

EDUCATION:

• Ph. D. in Computer and Information Science, Ohio State Univ 1972
• M. A. in Physiological Psychology from the Univ of South Florida, 1968
• B.S. in Mathematics, Yale University, 1964

SELECTED REFERENCES: (TOP 10 OUT OF 24)

• M. Vincze, Weiman, C., "Optimal Image Tessellation and Window Size for Visual Tracking", IEEE PAMI, 1998.
• Weiman, C., M. Vincze, "A Generic Motion Platform for Active Vision", SPIE Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Vol. 2904, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XV, Boston, pp 435-446, Nov, 1996.
• Weiman, C., "Binocular Stereo via Log-Polar Retinas", SPIE Conference on Visual Information Processing IV, Vol 2488, pp 309-320, Orlando, FLA, April 1995.
• Weiman, C. and Andrew Laine, "Design for Silicon Cortex", Final Report on U. S. Army Research Office contract number DAAH04-94-C-072, 07-JUL-95.
• Weiman, C., "Efficient Discrete Gabor Functions for Robot Vision", SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications, Vol 2242, pp 148-160, Orlando, FLA, April 1994a.
• Weiman, C., "Video Compression by Matching Human Perceptual Channels", SPIE Conf. on Visual Information Processing III, Vol. 2239, pp 178-189, Orlando, April, 1994b.
• Weiman, C., "Polar Exponential Sensor Arrays Unify Iconic and Hough Space Representation", SPIE Conf. on Intel. Robots and Comp. Vis. VIII: Algorithms and Techniques, Vol. 1192, Phila., Nov 1989.
• Weiman, C., "Continuous Anti-Aliased Rotation and Zoom of Raster Images", in Proceedings of the 1980 SIGGRAPH Conference (ACM), pp.286-293, July, 1980.
• Chaikin, G. M. and Weiman, C., "Conformal Computational Geometry for Machine Vision", in Proc. of the Fifth Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recog. and Image Processing, Miami, FLA, pp. 1106-1110, 1980.
• Weiman, C. and G. Chaikin, "Logarithmic Spiral Grids for Image Processing and Display", Computer Graphics and Image Processing, (11), pp. 197-226, 1979.

SELECTED GOVERNMENT GRANTS (SBIR AND STTR) WON: (TOP 5 OUT OF 11)

NASA JSC, Phase II SBIR: $493,800 Tracking System Applications of Exponential Sensor Array, Implemented mobile robot demo with active vision, Contract No. NAS 9-17990, MAY-88 to MAY-90.

U. S. Army Tank-Automotive Command, Phase II SBIR: $500,931 Robot Vehicle Video Image Compression, Realtime prototype of 1,000-to-1 video compression system, Contract No. DAAE07-90-C-R026, JUL-90 to JUL-92

National Science Foundation (NSF), Phase I SBIR: $64,362 Application of Log-Hough Transform to Lidar Navigation, Contract Number III-9361990 for, FEB-94 to OCT-94.

NSF, Phase II SBIR: $249,895 Robot Vision System Based on Log-Polar Image Plane Coordinates, Prototype binocular active vision head for commercial product, OCT-92 to SEP-94.

Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("Star Wars") Phase I STTR: $30,000 Design for Silicon Cortex, Contract # DAAH04-94-C-0072. Partnered with the Univ of Florida. 30-SEP-94 through 30-MAR-95.

SELECTED LIST OF PATENTS (top 5 out of 9)

Weiman, C., and Evans, J.M., Digital Image Compression Employing a Resolution Gradient, (Log polar image compression) U.S. Patent No. 5,103,306, 1992.

Weiman, C., Method and Means for Recognizing patterns Represented in Logarithmic Polar Coordinates, (Log Hough Transform), U.S. Patent No. 5,063,604, 05-NOV-91.

Evans, J., Weiman, C. and King, S., Mobile Robot Navigation Employing Ceiling Light Fixtures, U.S. Patent No. 4,933,864, 12-JUN-90.

Weiman, C. and Pong, W., Processing System and Method for Enhancing Image Data, (Plurality filter), U.S. Patent No. 4,979,136, 18-DEC-90.

Chaikin, G. M. and Weiman, C., "Image Processing System", (Original log-polar graphics and image processing patent), U. S. Patent 4,267,573, May 12, 1981.

PERSONAL: Married, two children (16 & 18 yrs). Enjoy skiing, biking, rollerblading, guitar, interdisciplinary intellectual exploration in math, brain, computer science, chaos theory.