Daniel P. Huttenlocher Associate Professor Cornell Weiss Presidential Fellow dph@cs.cornell.edu http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/dph/dph.html PhD MIT, 1988 My main area of research is computer vision, and my recent work focuses on the problems of geometric shape compar- ison, model-based motion tracking and image segmentation. My approach to these problems involves a combination of theoretical analysis, algorithm design, implementation, and experimentation. The overall goal is to produce systems that work well in practice and have a firm underlying theoretical and algorithmic foundation. My group is developing vision

University Activities 

• Chair: University Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technology (FABIT) 
• Chair: Provost's Task Force on Computing and Information Science  
• Chair: Computer Science Facilities Committee  
• Member: Project 2000 Executive Sponsor Committee  
• Member: Weiss Fellow Award Committee  

• Document-centered peer collaborations: An exploration of educational uses of networked communication technologies. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4, 3 (March
  1999) (with G. Gay, A.Sturgill, and W. Martin). 
• A new bayesian approach to object recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (1999) (with Y. Boykov). 
• Fast detection of common geometric substructure in proteins. Proceedings of 3rd ACM RECOMB, Research in Computational Biology (Apr. 1999), 104-113 (with P. Chew, K. Kedem, and J. Kleinberg). 

• Fontless structured document image representations for efficient rendering, U.S. Patent
  5,884,014, March, 1999 (with W. Rucklidge). 
• Method and apparatus for  comparing symbols extracted from binary images of text using topology preserved dilated representations of the symbols, U.S. Patent 5,835,638, Nov, 1998 (with W. Rucklidge and E. Jaquith).