After 25 years with the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories,
Oscar Firschein spent six years with the vision group of the
Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International. In 1995
he became the Image Understanding Program Manager at the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Washington, DC,
where he served for four years. On his return to the Bay Area,
he was a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Computer Science
Department where he taught a seminar in advanced image and
video databases for four years.
In addition to numerous papers in computer vision, he is
the co-author of "Intelligence: The Eye, the Brain, and
the Computer," Addison-Wesley 1987, co-editor of "Readings
in Computer Vision," Morgan Kaufmann 1987, and co-editor
of "Image Understanding for Imagery Intelligence,"
and Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition for
the Unmanned Ground Vehicle," Morgan Kaufmann 1997.
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