Richard L. Marks

Ph.D. in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Robotics Laboratory.

Research Interests

I am interested in real-time systems, computer vision, graphics, and robotics.

My thesis project, Visual Sensing for Automatic Control of an Underwater Robot, involved computer vision, control, and robotics technologies. Click here for more information.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy.
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Stanford University. Awarded June 1996.

Master of Science.
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Stanford University. Awarded June 1991.

Bachelor of Science, Aero/Astro Engineering (Avionics).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Awarded June 1990.

Work Experience

Principal Architect.
Autodesk.
Developing computer vision technology for automatic tracking and modelling. Involves real-time image processing, graphical user-interface design, and project-level software architecting.

System Architect.
Teleos Research.
Developing a computer vision platform for stereo and motion measurement, figure tracking, and object recovery. Involves real-time image processing, network communications, graphical user-interfaces, and multitasking.

Student Intern.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
Participated in the design, construction, and testing of OTTER, an Ocean Technology Testbed for Engineering Research. Responsible for visual sensing, camera control, fish tracking, video station keeping, and video mosaicking.

Student Intern.
Bendix Aerospace Corportation.
Software tools support group.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Unified Engineering.

Publications

`Automatic object tracking for an unmanned underwater vehicle using real-time image filtering and correlation,' Richard Marks, Stephen Rock, and Michael Lee, in Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October, 1993.

`Visual sensing for control of an underwater robotic vehicle,' Richard Marks, Michael Lee, and Stephen Rock, in Proceedings of IARP Second Workshop on Mobile Robots for Subsea Environments, May, 1994.

`Real-time video mosaicking of the ocean floor,' Richard Marks, Stephen Rock, and Michael Lee, in Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Techology, July, 1994.

`Automatic video station keeping of an underwater robot,' Richard Marks, Howard Wang, Stephen Rock, and Michael Lee, in Proceedings of IEEE Oceans '94, September, 1994.

`Real-time video mosaicking of the ocean floor,' Richard Marks, Stephen Rock, and Michael Lee, in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering , July, 1995.

Other Interests

I like to play basketball, volleyball, and video games. Also, my free time is often spent playing with my terribly-two year-old son Nathan (a.k.a. CyberNate).