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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