Biography | Publications

Dr. Collins joined Kitware’s computer vision program as an R&D Engineer in September 2007.  For the past 10 years, he has collaborated in research programs across various areas of computer vision including object-level change detection, applications of scene content analysis to object tracking, object segmentation via semantic ontologies, motion pattern learning and anomaly detection, and optical metrology.

Dr. Collins received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1991, and his M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1997 and 2004, respectively.  His research at RPI dealt with reformulating the process of program debugging, treating target programs as independent implementations of a single abstracted semantic domain in which constraints could be verified with minimal reference to the target program.

After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Collins joined the Visualization and Computer Vision lab at the GE Global Research Center, where he collaborated on various projects involving object-level change detection, applications of scene content analysis to object tracking, object segmentation via semantic ontologies and the use of Hidden Markov Models to classify object behavior.

Dr. Collins has been employed at Kitware, Inc. since September 2007 as a member of the Research Staff with a focus on Computer Vision.  He has co-authored papers published or due to be published in PAMI and IJCV, and has reviewed papers for CVPR, CNSR, and MVA; his work has appeared at both the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference.

Publications

A. G. A. Perera, R. Collins, and A. Hoogs. "Evaluation of Compression Schemes for Wide Area Video". Proceedings IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR). Washington, DC. 14 Oct 2008.

K. Barnard, Q. Fan, R. Swaminathan, A. Hoogs, R. Collins, P. Rondot and J. Kaufhold. Evaluation of Localized Semantics: Data, Methodology and Experiments.International Journal Of Computer Vision, Volume 77, Numbers 1-3 / May, 2008.

Anthony Hoogs and Roderic Collins. Object Boundary Detection in Images using a Semantic Ontology. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006. AAAI. Also in Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, 2006.

John Kaufhold, Roderic Collins, Anthony Hoogs and Pascale Rondot. Recognition and Segmentation of Scene Content using Region-Based Classification. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2006. IEEE.

Roderic Collins. Restoring Semantic Context: A Domain-Aware Debugger, Ph.D. Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2004.

A. Hoogs, R. Collins, R. Kaucic and J. Mundy. A Common Set of Perceptual Observables for Grouping, Figure-Ground Discrimination and Texture Classification. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(4), pages 458-474, April 2003.

A. Hoogs, R. Collins, and R. Kaucic. Classification of 3D Macro Texture Using Perceptual Observables. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, pp. 113-117, IEEE, 2002.

A. Hoogs, R. Collins, and R. Kaucic. Using Video for Recovering Texture. Proceedings of the Workshop on Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition,IEEE, Oct. 2001.