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• "Dottorato di Ricerca" in Electrical Engineering.
  University of Padova, Italy, 1993.
  Dissertation title: "On the Discretization of Moving Images".
  
  
• "Laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering.
  University of Padova, Italy, 1989.
  Dissertation title: "Multidimensional Spectral Estimation and Optimal Filtering of PAL Video Signals".
  

CAREER

• UC Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Engineering, Associate Professor.
  Jul. 2005 to present
  
  
• UC Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Engineering, Assistant Professor.
  Jul. 2001 to Jul. 2005
  
  
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Machine Vision Group. Senior Member of Technical Staff.
  Mar. 1998 to Jul. 2001.
  
  
• University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
  Sep. 2000 to Jul. 2001.
  
  
• Apple Computer Inc., Interactive Media Group, Senior Engineer.
  Mar. 1996 to Dec. 1997.

POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE

• Stanford University, Aug. 1995 to Mar. 1996
  
  
• California Institute of Technology, Jan. 1995 to Aug. 1995.
  
  
• University of California, Berkeley, Sep. 1992 to Dec. 1994.
  

FUNDED RESEARCH

• "Comparative Evaluation of Assistive Technology Devices and Software for Visually Impaired Persons, NSF/CRI (current)
  
  
• "Wayfinding for the Blind and Visually Impaired Using Passive Environmental Labels", NIH/NEI (current)
  
  
• "Exploring the World with a Ray of Light: An Environmental Sensor for the Blind", NSF/Sensors and Sensor Networks Program (current)
  
  
• "Managing the Information Flow in a Network of Visual Sensors", NASA/IS (current)
  
  
• "Inspector: Development of a Wireless Hybrid Camera Network for Monitoring and Surveillance of a Natural Reserve in the Queretero-Hidalguense Semiarid Zone", UC MEXUS-CONACYT (current)
  
  
• "Randomized Invariant features for Shape Classification", NSF (ended in 2007)
  
  
• "A Tactile Mapquest for the Blind", UCSC/COR (ended in 2007)
  
  
• "The Next Hundred Meters: Developing a Farsighted Autonomous Robot", DARPA/LAGR (ended in 2006)
  
  
• "Multispectral Image Analysis for UAV-Based Wildfire Monitoring", UCSC/UARC (ended in 2006)
  
  
• "Object-ReferencedRobotics Navigation in Dynamic Urban Environments", DARPA/MARS 2020 (ended in 2004)
  
  
• "Region-of-Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management", NASA/AIST (ended in 2003)
  
  
• "Learning Terrain Classification for Cross-country Autonomous Navigation", DARPA/MARS (ended in 2002)
  
  
• "3-D Characterization and Progressive Transmission of Geological Surfaces on Mars", JPL/TMOD (ended in 2001)
  
  
• "Terrain Perception for DEMO III", DoD/ARL (ended in 2001)

PATENTS

• "Method and System for Searching for an Optimal Codevector", with K. Chu, D. Ponceleon, an H.S. Wu. US Patent #6,192,336.
  
  
• "Linear Predictive Speech Encoding Systems with Efficient Combination Pitch Coefficients Computation", with K. Chu, D. Ponceleon, and H.S. Wu. US Patent #5,794,182.
  
  
• "Recursive Pitch Predictor Employing an Adaptively Determined Search Window", with K. Chu, D. Ponceleon, and H.S. Wu. US Patent #5,812,967.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

• Area Chair, 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2006
  
  
• General Chair, 1st IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired, 2005
  
  
• Area Chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2005
  
  
• Publication Chair, 1st International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2002
  
  
• Member of the Program Committee: VSSN'06, AAAI'06, VISAPP'06, VMV'05, VSSN'05, Motion'05, CVPR'04, VMV'04, RT3DS'04, 3DPVT'04, RCV'03, BAVM'03, IROS'03, FSR '03, VMV'03, VMV'02, VMV'01, VMV'00, VMV'99, IMDSP'98
  

PUBLICATIONS

1. K.-Y. Chan, R. Manduchi, J. Coughlan, "Accessible Spaces: Navigating through a Marked Environment with a Camera Phone", demonstration at the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'07), Octiber 2007, Tempe, AZ.
   
   
2. J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, "Color Targets: Fiducials to Help Visually Impaired People Find Their Way by Camera Phone", Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Disability, 2007.
   
   
3. S. Bohonos, A. Lee, A. Malik, C. Thai, R. Manduchi, "Universal Real-Time Navigational Assistance (URNA): An Urban Bluetooth Beacon for the Blind", 1st International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet 2007), June 2007. Here is the demo.
   
   
4. G. Zhang, R. Manduchi, "Prediction of the Lifetime of a Battery-Operated Video Node Using Offline and Online Measurements", IEEE Int. Workshop on Advanced Methods for Uncertainy Estimation in Measurements (AMUEM 07), Sardagna (TN), Italy, July 2007.
   
   
5. J. Coughlan and R. Manduchi, "Functional Assessment of a Camera Phone-Based Wayfinding System Operated by Blind Users", IEEE-BAIS Symposium on Research on Assistive Technology, Dayton, OH, April 2007.
   
   
6. X. Shi, R. Manduchi, "On the Bayes Fusion of Visual Features", Image and Vision Computing, 25:1748-58, 2007.
   
   
7. K.-Y. Chan, K. Kitagawa, R. Manduchi, “Experiments in Planar Haptic Contour Exploration”, sketch presented at World Haptics 2007.
   
   
8. X. Shi, A.L. Ribeiro Castro, R. Manduchi, R. Montgomery, "Rotational Invariant Operators based on Steerable Filter Banks", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 13(11):684-87, November 2006.
   
   
9. R. Manduchi, "Learning Outdoor Color Classification", IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell., 28(11), November 2006, 1713-23.
   
   
10. C. B. Margi, X. Lu, G. Zhang, G. Stanek, R. Manduchi, K. Obraczka, "Meerkats: A Power-Aware, Self-Managing Wireless Camera Network for Wide Area Monitoring", Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras (DSC'06), Boulder, CO, October 2006.
    
    
11. X. Lu and R. Manduchi, "A New Structural Constraint and its Application in Wide Baseline Matching", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), Hong Kong, August 2006.
    
    
12. J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, H. Shen, "Computer Vision-Based Terrain Sensors for Blind Wheelchair Users", 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria, July 2006.
    
    
13. X. Lu and R. Manduchi, "Fast Image Motion Computation on an Embedded Computer", 2nd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, New York, June 2006.
    
    
14. J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, H. Shen, "Cell Phone-based Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired", 1st International Workshop on Mobile Vision, Graz, Austria, May 2006.
    
    
15. C. Margi, R. Manduchi, K. Obraczka, "Energy Consumption Tradeoffs in Visual Sensor Networks", 24th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC 2006), Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 2006.
    
    
16. C. Margi, V. Petkov, K. Obraczka, R. Manduchi, "Characterizing Energy Consumption in a Visual Sensor Network Testbed", 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, Barcelona, Spain, March 2006.
    
    
17. X. Shi and R. Manduchi, "On Rotational Invariance for Texture Recognition", 4th International Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis, Beijing, China, October 2005.
    
    
18. O. Lanz and R. Manduchi, "Hybrid Joint-Separable Multibody Tracking", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '05), San Diego, CA, June 2005.
    
    
19. D. Yuan and R. Manduchi, "Dynamic Environment Exploration Using a Virtual White Cane", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '05), San Diego, CA, June 2005.
    
    
20. C. Margi, K. Obraczka, R. Manduchi, "Characterizing System Level Energy Consumption in Mobile Computing Platforms", IEEE WirelessCom 2005, Symposium on Mobile Computing, Maui, HI, June 2005.
    
    
21. J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, M. Mutsuzaki, H. Shen, "Rapid and Robust Algorithms to Detect Colour Targets", 10th Congress of the Colour Association, AIC, Granada, Spain, May 2005.
    
    
22. X. Lu and R. Manduchi, "Detection and Localization of Curbs and Stairways Using Stereo Vision", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), Barcelona, April 2005.
    
    
23. R. Manduchi, A. Castano, A. Talukder, L. Matthies, "Obstacle Detection and Terrain Classification for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation", Autonomous Robots, 18, 81-102, 2005.
    
    
24. X. Lu and R. Manduchi, "Wide-Baseline Feature Matching Using the Cross-Epipolar Ordering Constraint", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, June 2004.
    
    
25. X. Shi and R. Manduchi, "Invariant Operators, Small Samples, and the Bias-Variance Dilemma", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, June 2004.
    
    
26. D. Yuan and R. Manduchi, "A Tool for Range Sensing and Environment Discovery for the Blind", IEEE Workshop on Real Time 3D Sensor and Their Use, Washington DC, June 2004. (Also presented as a demo at CVPR 04.)
    
    
27. A. Charaniya, R. Manduchi, S. Lodha, "Supervised Parametric Classification of Aerial LiDAR Data", IEEE Workshop on Real Time 3D Sensor and Their Use, Washington DC, June 2004.
    
    
28. R. Manduchi, "Fusing Segmentation and Classification from Multiple Features", Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition and on Statistical Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2004.
    
    
29. R. Manduchi, "Learning Outdoor Color Classification from Just One Training Image", European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, May 2004.
    
    
30. L. Matthies, C. Bergh, A. Castano, J. Macedo, R. Manduchi, "Sensor Phenomenology for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation", 11th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Siena, Italy, October 2003.
    
    
31. R. Turchetto, R. Manduchi, "Visual Curb Localization for Autonomous Navigation", IEEE/RSJ IROS'03, Las Vegas, October 2003.
    
    
32. X. Shi, R. Manduchi, "A Study on Bayes Feature Fusion for Image Classification", IEEE Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Computer Vision, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2003.
    
    
33. K. Obraczka, R. Manduchi, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aveces, "Managing the Information Flow in Visual Sensor Networks", 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Honolulu, HI, October 2002.
    
    
34. A. Talukder, R. Manduchi, R. Castano, K. Owens, L. Matthies, A. Castano, R. Hogg , "Autonomous Terrain Characterization and Modeling for Dynamic Control of Unmanned Vehicles", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Lausanne, Switzerland,2002.
    
    
35. A. Talukder, R. Manduchi, A. Rankin, L. Matthies, "Fast and Reliable Obstacle Detection and Segmentation for Cross-Country Navigation", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2002, Versailles, France, 2002.
    
    
36. A.E. Johnson, R. Manduchi, "Probabilistic 3D Data Fusion for Multiresolution Surface Generation", 1st International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Padova, Italy, 2002.
    
    
37. R. Castano, R. Manduchi, J. Fox, "Classification Experiments on Real-World Textures", Workshop on Empirical Evaluation in Computer Vision, Kauai, HI, December 2001.
    
    
38. R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, F. Pollara, "From Cross-Country Autonomous Navigation to Intelligent Deep Space Communications: Visual Sensor Processing at JPL", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2001, 472-477.
    
    
39. V. Gor, R. Castano, R. Manduchi, R. C. Anderson, and E. Mjolsness, "Autonomous Rock Detection for Mars Terrain", in Proceedings of AIAA Space 2001, Albuquerque, August 2000.
    
    
40. J. Macedo, R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, "Ladar-based Discrimination of Grass from Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER'00), Waikiki Beach, December 2000.
    
    
41. M.S. Gillmore, R. Castano, T. Mann, R.C. Anderson, E.D. Mjolsness, R. Manduchi, and R.S. Saunders, "Strategies for Autonomous Rovers at Mars", Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 105(E12), 2000, 29223-37.
    
    
42. P. Bellutta, R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, K. Owens, A. Rankin, "Terrain Perception for DEMO III", in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000, Dearborn, MI, October 2000, 326-332.
    
    
43. R. Manduchi, "Mixture Models and the Segmentation of Multimodal Textures", in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2000, 98-104.
    
    
44. R. Manduchi, S. Dolinar, F. Pollara, A. Matache, "Onboard Science Processing for Intelligent Deep Space Communications", in Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace 2000, Big Sky, March 2000. A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 2000.
    
    
45. R. Manduchi, J. Portilla, "Independent Component Analysis of Textures", in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, September 1999, 1054-1060.
    
    
46. R. Manduchi, "Bayesian Fusion of Color and Texture Segmentations", in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, September 1999, 956-962.
    
    
47. R. Manduchi, C. Tomasi, "Distinctiveness Maps for Image Matching", in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Venice, September 1999, 26-31.
    
    
48. R. Manduchi, P. Perona, "Multirate Separable Implementation of Steerable Filter Banks" (invited paper), in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems '98, Monterey, Vol. 5, June 1998, 333-336.
    
    
49. C. Tomasi, R. Manduchi, "Stereo Matching as a Nearest Neighbor Problem", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 3, April 1998, 333-340.
    
    
50. R. Manduchi, P. Perona and D. Shy, "Efficient Deformable Filter Banks", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Filter Banks and Wavelet Transform), Vol. 46, No. 4, April 1998, 1168-1173.
    
    
51. C. Tomasi, R. Manduchi, "Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision '98, New Delhi, January 1998, 836-846.
    
    
52. R. Manduchi, "Two-dimensional IFIR Structures Using Generalized Factorizable Filters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, II, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1997, 564-576.
    
    
53. R. Manduchi, "Some Properties of Generalized Factorable 2-D FIR Filters", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 1996, 1534-1546. A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing '96, Atlanta, Vol. 4, May 1996, 2379-2382.
    
    
54. R. Manduchi, "Adapted Differentiators for Image Motion Estimation", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No.10, May 1996, 876-877.
    
    
55. R. Manduchi, P. Perona, "Least Squares Multirate FIR Filters", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No.8, April 1996, 726-727.
    
    
56. C. Tomasi, R. Manduchi, "Stereo Without Search", in Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision '96, Cambridge, U.K., April 1996, Vol. 1, 425-465. Also appears as Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-95-1543, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January 1995.
    
    
57. R. Manduchi, "Iterative Interlattice Interpolation", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 6, March 1996, 533-534.
    
    
58. R. Manduchi, P. Perona, "Pyramidal Implementation of Deformable Kernels", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing '95, Washington D.C., October 1995, 378-381.
    
    
59. R. Manduchi, G.M. Cortelazzo, "Spectral Characteristics and Motion-Compensated Restoration of Composite Frames", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1995, 95-99.
    
    
60. R. Bernardini, R. Manduchi, "On the Use of the Smith Normal Form Theorem for Deriving the Inverse Multidimensional DFT Formula", European Transactions on Communications and Related Technologies, Vol. 5, No. 3, May-June 1994, 377-380.
    
    
61. R. Manduchi, G.A. Mian, G.M. Cortelazzo, "Multistage Sampling Structure Conversion of Video Signals", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 3, No. 5, October 1993, 325-340.
    
    
62. G.M. Cortelazzo, R. Manduchi, "On the Determination of All the Sublattices of Preassigned Index and Its Application to Multidimensional Subsampling", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, August 1993, 318-320.
    
    
63. R. Manduchi, G.A. Mian, "Accuracy Analysis for Correlation-Based Image Registration Algorithms", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems '93, Chicago, May 1993, 834-837.
    
    
64. C. Monti, G.M. Cortelazzo, R. Manduchi, "On the Relationship Between Motion and Aliasing in Standard Television Rasters", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems '92, San Diego, May 1992, 576-580.
    
    
65. G.M. Cortelazzo, R. Manduchi, E. Grinzato, P. Bison, "Spectral Analysis of Thermographic Imagery", in Proceedings of the COMCONEL, Cairo, Egypt, December 1991, 288-293.
    
    
66. S. Dal Poz, G. Cortelazzo, R. Manduchi, "An Improved Quality PAL Decoder", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 36, No. 3, August 1990, 309-317.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. J. Boice, X. Lu, G. Stanek, G. Zhang, R. Manduchi, K. Obraczka, "Meerkats: A Power-Aware, Self-Managing Wireless Camera Network for Wide Area Monitoring", Technical Report ucsc-crl-05-04, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005.
   
   
2. R. Manduchi, P. Perona, D. Shy, "Efficient Implementation of Deformable Filter Banks", Technical Report CNS-TR-97-04, California Institute of Technology, 1997.
   
   
3. R. Manduchi, "Improving the Accuracy of Differential-Based Optical Flow Systems", Technical Report UCB-CSD-93-776, University of California, Berkeley, 1993.

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