Claude L. Fennema, Jr.

Professor Emeritus

Mount Holyoke College

Gone Fishing !

Contact Information

Email: cfennema@mtholyoke.edu

Background

B.S. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Instistute of Technology, 1963
M.A. in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, 1967
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International 1959-1972
Central Research Laboratories, 3M Company 1972-1978
Control Data Corporation 1978 – 1986
PhD. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991
Mount Holyoke College Computer Science Department 1990 - 2007

 

 

Courses I have taught

Introductory Courses

Introduction to PASCAL
Introduction to C *
Data Structures

Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence *

Robotics and Computer Vision *

Advanced Computer Vision *

Natural Language

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Psychologists

Systems

Operating Systems *
Computer Networks *

Theory

Theory of Computation *

Seminars – Special Topcs

Research Methods
The Impact of Personal Computing


* These are courses I have taught many times.

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Natural Language, and Virtual Reality

Selected Publications, Technical Reports and Patents

·        "Scene Analysis Using Regions", published in the Artificial Intelligence Journal, 1970; C. Brice, C. Fennema.  Republished in Computer Methods in Image Analysis; J. K. Aggerwal, R. O. Duda, A. Rosenfeld, editors, IEEE, 1977.

·        "Automatic Non-Contact Recognition of Insignia", Patent No. 3,818,191 issued June 18,1974.

·        "Velocity Determination in Scenes Containing Several Moving Objects", published in Computer Graphics and Image Processing Journal, 1979; C. Fennema and W. B. Thompson.

·        "Planning with perceptual milestones to control uncertainty in robot navigation", C.L. Fennema, E.M. Riseman and A.R. Hanson, proceedings of the  SPIE Mobile Robots III conference, pp 2-18, Cambridge, November 10-11 1988.

·        "Towards Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation", Claude Fennema, Allen R. Hanson and Edward Riseman, proceedings of the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp 219-231. May 1989.  Also available as a technical report: TR 89-104, COINS Department, University of Massachusetts (Amherst).

·        "Model-Directed Mobile Robot Navigation", C. Fennema, A. Hanson, E.  Riseman, J. Ross Beveridge, and R. Kumar, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Special issue on unmanned systems and vehicles, pp. 1352-1369, Vol. 20, No. 6, Nov/Dec, 1990.  Also available as technical report: COINS TR 90-42, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, June 1990.

·        “Interweaving Reason, Action and Perception”.  C. Fennema.  PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts, September 1991.  Also available as technical report  COINS TR91-56, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA 1991

·        "Finding Landmark Features Under a Broad Range of Lighting Conditions."  C. Fennema. Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Vol. 2055, pp. 181-191, September 1993.

·        "Executing Reactive Behavior for Autonomous Navigation."  B. Rochwerger, C. Fennema, B. Draper, A. Hanson and E. Riseman.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, Seattle WA, June 1994.

·        “Steering a Mobile Robot in Real Time.”  Mei C. Chuah and Claude Fennema.  Proceedings of the SPIE conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3D Vision, Product Inspection and Active Vision, Volume 2354, p. 57-65, Boston MA, November 1994.

·        "Interweaving Reason, Action and Perception".  C. Fennema and A. Hanson.  Computer Science Department Technical Report TR95-34, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 1995.

·        “Place recognition using color region analysis”.  Lilla Zollei and Claude L. Fennema, Jr.  Proceedings of the SPIE conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Volume 3837,  pp.175-184., Boston MA, September 1999.

Honors Projects Completed by My Students:

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Natural Language

·        "Where Am I? - Using Vision to Localize a Robot." Tina Kapur, 1992.  .

·        "Acquiring new knowledge about the environment using computer vision.”  Aparna Lakshimi Ratan, 1992 (Summa Cum Laude).

·        "Steering a robot in real time with a parallel system."  Mei Chuah, 1993 (Summa Cum Laude).

·        "Learning about the environment with computer vision using motion"  Maxine Roberts, 1995.

·        "Natural Language Understanding: Integrating Symbolic AI and Nerual Network Processing in Computer Understanding of Natural Language."  Ying Wang,1996.

·        "An Eye for a Cyber-eye: A computer model of a visual system." Beth Murray (Hampshire College'96).

·        "NOW Distributed Supercomputers for Computer Vision."  Jorjeta Jetcheva, 1997 (Summa Cum Laude).

·        "Using Author Level and Character Level Planning in Story Generation.."  Emily Crooks, 1998 (Summa Cum Laude).

·        "Immaculate Perception: Stereo Vision."  Lindsey Noll, 1998.

·        "Grammar and Transformation Rules for Syntactic Morphing.", Lisa Cocozzella, 1999

·        "Place Recognition Using Color Region Analysis"  Lilla Zollei,1999 (Summa Cum Laude)

·        “Experiments in Color Constancy”  Sarah Taylor Erickson, 2001

·        “Linking Language and Vision: The Perceptual Meaning of Noun Phrases”   Lindsey Hotchkies, 2001 (Summa Cum Laude)

·        “Image Matching in Stereo Vision”  Maya Peeva, 2001

·        “Face Recognition - Using Vision to Recognize Faces.”  Sadia Sharmin, 2001

·        “Machine Translation from English to German”, Carolin Arnold , 2002.

·        “Where is it?  Locating objects using prepositional phrases via dialogue.” Mohanty, Natasha,  2003.

·        “Using Natural Language Descriptions to aid Object Recognition.”   Ariadna Quattoni, 2003 (Summa Cum Laude).

Virtual Reality

·        “Real-Time Interactive Raytracing in Distributed Environments for Virtual Reality Systems.”  Siddiqi, Sabina, 2003

·        “Attention Driven Rendering.”  Tabani, Sanaa, 2003.

·        “The Role of Familiar Size and Proprioception on Absolute Egocentric Distance Perception during Visual Motion..”  Dang, Estelle, 2004.

·        “The Effects of Texture Mapping Techniques on Slant Perception of Planar Surfaces Textured with Flat Textures”.  Mutsuddi, Adity , 2004.

·        “Effect of Depth of Field on Perceived Visual Realism of Images.”  Ahmed, Farahnaz, 2006.

·        “Computer Graphics and Human Depth Perception with Gaze-Contingent Depth of Field.”  Villarruel, Christina, 2006.

·        “The Effect of Motion Parallex on Vection in Virtual Environments.”  Trutoiu, Laura, 2008.

 

Administration

Chair, Computer Science Department 1991 - 2003.
Science Advisory Board 1991 - 2003
Science Building Project Committee 1998 - 2001.
Chair of Academic Computing Steering Committee 1991 - 1994.
Academic Computing Evaluation Committee (Ad Hoc) 1994 - 1995.
Chair of Academic Policy Committee 1998

Other Interests

Fly Fishing

Entomology

The Ecology of Estuaries

Photography

Sailing

Travel