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James Crowley
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
Membership Number: 4
Address: INRIA Rhones Alpes, 655 Ave de l'Europe,38330 Montbonnot, France
Email: James.Crowley@inrialpes.fr
Phone: (33) 4 76 61 53 96
Fax: (33) 4 76 61 52 10
URL: http://www-prima.imag.fr

Biographical Sketch
James L. Crowley holds the post of Professor at the c (INPG). He teaches courses in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at l'Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliques (ENSIMAG). Within the Laboratory GRAVIR of the Institut IMAG, Professor Crowley directs the project PRIMA. PRIMA has as its goal the development of techniques for observation of human action, with applications to intelligent environments and man-machine interactoin. Project PRIMA has developed a new approach to visual perception and recognition based on representations of local appearance. The project is currently applying these techniques to problems of object recognition, recognition of faces and facial experssions, gesture recognition, and recognition of human activities. Applications include computer assisted communications and man-machine interaction.

From 1995 to 2001, Professor Crowley has coordinated the DG XII TMR network SMART II whose subject is the development of techniques for surveillance and monitoring. He has recently served as founder and coordinator ot the European Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), the EC "Network of Excellence" in Computer Vision. He has served as the technical coordinator of project ESPRIT basic research project BRA 3038/EP 7108, "Vision as Process" from 1989 to 1995. The VAP Project developed active vision heads, model architectures for real time continuously operating computer vision systems, and a theory of control of perception.

In the area of mobile robotics, Professor Crowley has developed systems for world modeling and navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range sensors. Versions of these systems have been used in several commercial mobile robot navigation systems.

Professor Crowley has edited two books, four special issues of journals, and over 150 articles on vision and mobile robotics. He ranks number 1675 in the CiteSeers most cited authors in Computer Science - April 2001 (ResearchIndex).

Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Project PRIMA, Laboratoire GRAVIR)
The PRIMA group is part of the GRAVIR Laboratory, CNRS UMR 5527, part of the CNRS Federation of Reseach Units, IMAG - FU 001. GRAVIR is co-dependent on the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), the University Joseph Fourier (UJF), the French CNRS, and INRIA Rhônes Alpes. The PRIMA research team includes three professors, two post-doctoral researchers, an engineer, and a team of 5 doctoral students. PRIMA has as its goal the development of techniques for integrating perception, action and reasoning, with applications to the perception of human action. Project PRIMA has developed a new approach to visual perception and recognition based on discrete representations of local appearance The project is currently applying these techniques to problems of object recognition, recognition of faces and facial experssions, gesture recognition, and recognition of human activities. Applications include computer assisted communications and man-machine interaction. Project PRIMA currently participates in the European IST Project VISOR BASE, FET Disappearing Computer Initiative Projet GLOSS, IST Project DETECT, IST Project FAME, and the thematic network FGNet. As a joint research unit depending on the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), the University Joseph Fourier (UJF), the French CNRS, and INRIA Rhônes Alpes, laboratory GRAVIR must sign contract through one of its four parent organisations. The contracting partner for ECVision will be the I.N.P. Grenoble.


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