Biography

Eric Smith holds a PhD in Computer Vision from Rensselar Polytechnic Instiute, where he also recieved his B.S. in Computer Science. Eric's graduate research focused on the automatic registration of combined image/LiDAR scans. He developed a pairwise registration algorithm designed to handle scan pairs suffering from low overlap, changes, intensity differences, and wide viewpoint differences. Eric has also worked on feature detection, description, and matching algorithms targeted at coarse alignment for combined image/LiDAR scans. As well as a fully automatic multiple scan registration algorithm. He has published three computer vision papers and has reviewed papers for PAMI, IVC, and ICRA.

Eric joined Kitware in September 2011 and started working on 3D reconstruction from aerial video. Previously, he interned at Traffic.com where he worked on a traffic visualization application for television.