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Duties included research, teaching, and administration.
Main areas of research have been the theory and application of neural
networks, computer vision, and the application of AI technique to engineering.
Principal investigator in a project to model the early stages of processing
in the mammalian visual system, based on neuroanatomy, neurophysiology,
and theoretical analysis. The model is adaptive and has been very successful
in modelling the development of many features of mammalian early visual
processing, such as oriented receptive fields, orientation columns, ocular
dominance stripes, and colour blobs.
Co-investigator in a project on optic constraints for action, modelling
processing of image motion for navigation and action in an environment.
Co-investigator in research to develop mobile robot sensory and control
systems using genetic algorithms and real hardware.
Co-investigator in a project to develop software tools for integrated
symbolic and sub-symbolic modelling.
Another main area of research has been the application of AI, and particularly neural network, techniques in industry and commerce. Applications investigated have included mineral exploration using data in image format, weather forecasting using radar image sequences, x-ray interpretation, and mechanical design.
Taught a range of courses for the Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Master's degree in Knowledge-Based Systems.
Supervised Master's and Doctorial research into a variety of basic and applied topics.
Administrative duties have included Subject Chair for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (1989-90), Chair of COGS M.Sc. Exam Board (1990-93), Academic Secretary for Computer Science (1990-91). Also, External Examiner for M.Sc. course, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (1991-95). Examiner for more than a dozen Doctoral dissertations.
Member of the CPCS selection Board for the Distinguished Dissertation in Computer Science (1991-95).
Consultant to Schlumberger Technologies. Consultant to Newmont Exploration Limited on applications of neural network technology to mineral exploration.
Member of the panel of Oxford Consultants.
Recipient of two unsolicited awards from the Stichting Fund for Science and Technology Research.
Member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Computation.
Research into techniques for aiding the design of mechanisms: Initial
design selection using a catalog, efficient simulation through automated
program generation, and mechanism optimization subject to constraints.
Technical advisor to Solartron for two Alvey-supported projects in
the UK: Intelligent simulation for training sea and air personnel; Machine
health monitoring for engines and gearboxes.
Project leader on automated formal verification of digital hardware
designs.
Project leader on diagnosis of problems in semiconductor manufacturing.
VLSI design of ICs for image processing.
Member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence and
Future Generation Computer Systems.
One of the four founders of FLAIR (which evolved into SPAR).
Participated in planning the laboratory, recruitment of staff and provision
of equipment.
Research in intelligent aids for VLSI design, automated IC cell layout,
expert systems for process problem diagnosis, visual inspection of ICs,
resource allocation in IC testers.
Elected a Fairchild Scientist (1984). Award for technical achievement.
Research in image understanding.
Principal investigator of DARPA project on Intelligent aids for Cartography
and Photo-interpretation. Design and development of basic system software
and support packages for the DARPA Image Understanding Testbed.
Principal investigator of NSF project to study equilibrium processes
in perception.
Development of the Intrinsic Image massively parallel model of visual
processing.
Design of special-purpose hardware for image processing.
Co-principal investigator in evaluation of ADA as a language for AI
systems and evaluation of methods of technology transfer from image understanding
research program.
Member of the advisory board to Jet Propulsion Laboratories on Mars
Rover robot project. Consultant to MB Associates on pit slope monitoring
for mining.
Design and construction of FREDDY I and FREDDY II robotic systems and
computer interface. Research in computer vision.
Development of a versatile automatic assembly robot system which used
vision intensively to increase reliability.
Work on programming languages and systems for AI.
Consultant to General Motors Technical Research Division on research
instrumentation, machine vision and versatile assembly.
Consultant to National Physical Laboratory on applications of AI to
industrial inspection and automation. Technical advisor to BBC for a Horizon
programme on AI. Program Chair for AISB74.
O. A. S. Carpinteiro. "A connectionist approach in music perception", 1996.
G. Ryall. "An automated system for generating very-short-range forecasts of precipitation", 1994.
J. M. L. Budd. "Stability and function of simple adaptive neural architectures", 1994.
R. Dallaway. "Dynamics of arithmetic: A connectionist view of arithmetic skills", 1993.
A. C. R. da Silva Filho. "Investigation of a generalised version of Amari's continuous model for neural networks", 1992.
I. Chaudry. "Computer-aided assessment of assembly", 1992.
G. J. Goodhill. "Correlations, competition, and optimality: Modelling the development of topography and ocular dominance", 1991.
G. A. Kramer. "Geometric reasoning in the kinematic analysis of mechanisms", 1990.
H. G. Barrow. "Connectionism and neural networks" In M. A. Boden, editor, Handbook of Perception and Cognition: Artificial Intelligence, Academic Press, 1996.
H. G. Barrow, A. J. Bray, and J. M. L. Budd. "A self-organising model of "colour blob" formation." Neural Computation, 8:7, 1427--1448, 1996.
G. J. Goodhill and H. G. Barrow. "The role of weight normalization in competitive learning." Neural Computation, 1993.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Retrospective on: Interpreting line drawings as three-dimensional surfaces." Artificial Intelligence, 59:71--80, 1993.
H. G. Barrow and A. J. Bray. "An adaptive neural model of early visual processing." In F. H. Eeckman and J. M. Bower, editors, Computation and Neural Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
H. G. Barrow and A. J. Bray. "Activity-induced 'colour blob' formation." In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor, editors, Artificial Neural Networks, 2: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. North-Holland, 1992.
H. G. Barrow and A. J. Bray. "A model of adaptive development of complex cortical cells." In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor, editors, Artificial Neural Networks, 2: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. North-Holland, 1992.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. L. Budd. "Automatic gain control by a basic neural circuit." In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor, editors, Artificial Neural Networks, 2: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. North-Holland, 1992.
H. G. Barrow. "Stability of asymmetric networks and Dale's law." In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor, editors, Artificial Neural Networks, 2: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. North-Holland, 1992.
G. A. Kramer and H. G. Barrow. "A case-based approach to the design of mechanical linkages." In C. Tong and D. Sriram, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design II. Academic Press, 1992.
G. A. Kramer, H. G. Barrow, and P. Agre. "Closed-form kinematics." U.S. Patent No. 5,043,929, August 1991.
G. A. Kramer and H. G. Barrow. "A multi-objective optimization algorithm for mechanism synthesis." In Proceedings of the Schlumberger Software Conference, March 1990.
H. G. Barrow. "Neural networks." Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, Summer 1989.
G. A. Kramer and H. G. Barrow. "An intelligent mixed symbolic/numerical system for the design of mechanical linkages." In Proceedings of the 3rd Schlumberger Software Conference, pages 975--989, November 1988.
G. A. Kramer and H. G. Barrow. "An intelligent mixed symbolic/numerical system for the design of mechanical linkages." In Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG5.2 Workshop on Intelligent Computer-Aided Design. IFIP, September 1988.
G. A. Kramer and H. G. Barrow. "New approaches to linkage synthesis." In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1989.
H. G. Barrow. "Learning receptive fields." In IEEE First International Conference on Neural Networks, volume IV, pages 115--121. IEEE, June 1987.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Matching, template." In S. C. Shapiro, editor, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, volume 1, pages 576--578. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1987.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Computational approaches to vision." In K. R. Boff, L. Kaufman, and J. P. Thomas, editors, Handbook of Perception and Human Performance, volume II, chapter 38. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1986.
H. G. Barrow. "Proving the correctness of digital hardware designs." VLSI Design, 5(7):64--77, July 1984.
H. G. Barrow. "VERIFY: A program for proving correctness of digital hardware designs." Artificial Intelligence, 24(2):437--491, 1984.
H. G. Barrow. "Proving the correctness of digital hardware designs." In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 17--21, August 1983.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Interpreting line drawings as three-dimensional surfaces." Artificial Intelligence, 17:75--116, 1981.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Computational vision." Proceedings of the IEEE, 69(5):572--595, May 1981.
J. M. Tenenbaum, M. A. Fischler, and H. G. Barrow. "Scene modeling: A structural basis for image description." Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 12(4):407--425, April 1980.
H. G. Barrow. "Artificial intelligence." In Proceedings of the Infotech International State of the Art Conference on the Factory of the Future, Amsterdam, October 1979.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Reconstructing smooth surfaces from partial, noisy information." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 76--86. Science Applications Inc., October 1979.
J. M. Tenenbaum, H. G. Barrow, R. C. Bolles, M. A. Fischler, and H. C. Wolf. "Map-guided interpretation of remotely-sensed imagery." In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, pages 610--617. IEEE, August 1979.
M. A. Fischler, G. J. Agin, H. G. Barrow, R. C. Bolles, L. H. Quam, J. M. Tenenbaum, and H. C. Wolf. "The SRI image understanding program." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 1--3. Science Applications Inc., April 1979.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Recovering intrinsic scene characteristics from images." In E. Riseman and A. Hanson, editors, Computer Vision Systems. Academic Press, New York, 1978.
M. A. Fischler, G. J. Agin, H. G. Barrow, R. C. Bolles, L. H. Quam, J. M. Tenenbaum, and H. C. Wolf. "The SRI road expert: An overview." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 13--15. Science Applications Inc., November 1978.
H. G. Barrow and M. A. Fischler. "An expert system for detecting and interpreting road events depicted in aerial imagery." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 155--156. Science Applications Inc., May 1978.
J. M. Tenenbaum and H. G. Barrow. "Prospects for industrial vision." In G. G. Dodd and L. Rossol, editors, Computer Vision and Sensor-Based Robots. Plenum Press, New York, 1978.
H. G. Barrow. "A geometrically-indexed knowledge base for understanding aerial imagery." In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Picture Data Description and Management. IEEE, 1977.
H. G. Barrow, R. C. Bolles, T. D. Garvey, and J. H. Kremers. "Experiments in map-guided photo interpretation." In Proceedings Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 696, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., August 1977.
H. G. Barrow, J. M. Tenenbaum, R. C. Bolles, and H. C. Wolf. "Parametric correspondence and chamfer matching: Two new techniques for image matching." In Proceedings Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 659--663, MIT Cambridge, Mass., August 1977.
H. G. Barrow. "Low-level, domain-independent knowledge and scene segmentation." In Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium of the Center for Visual Science on The Perception of Form, Object and Scene, Rochester, New York, June 1977.
H. G. Barrow. "Interactive aids for cartography and photo interpretation." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 105--108. Science Applications Inc., April 1977.
H. G. Barrow, R. C. Bolles, T. D. Garvey, J. H. Kremers, K. Lantz, J. M. Tenenbaum, and H. C. Wolf. "Interactive aids for cartography and photo interpretation." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 111--127. Science Applications Inc., October 1977.
H. G. Barrow, J. M. Tenenbaum, R. C. Bolles, and H. C. Wolf. "Parametric correspondence and chamfer matching: Two new techniques for image matching." In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pages 21--27. Science Applications Inc., April 1977.
J. M. Tenenbaum and H. G. Barrow. "Experiments in interpretation-guided segmentation." Artificial Intelligence, 8(3), 1977.
J. M. Tenenbaum and H. G. Barrow. "IGS: A paradigm for integrating image segmentation and interpretation." In C. H. Chen, editor, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Academic Press, 1977.
J. M. Tenenbaum and H. G. Barrow. "IGS: A paradigm for integrating image segmentation and interpretation." In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition. IEEE Computer Society, 1976.
H. G. Barrow and J. M. Tenenbaum. "Representation and use of knowledge in vision." Naval Research Reviews, 29(4):3--17, 1976.
H. G. Barrow and R. M. Burstall. "Subgraph isomorphism, matching relational structures and maximal cliques." Information Processing Letters, 4(4):83--84, January 1976.
A. P. Ambler, H.G. Barrow, C. M. Brown, R. M. Burstall, and R. J. Popplestone. "A versatile computer controlled assembly system." Artificial Intelligence, 6(2):129--156, 1975.
A. P. Ambler, H. G. Barrow, C. M. Brown, R. M. Burstall, and R. J. Popplestone. "A versatile computer-controlled assembly system." In Proceedings of the Third international Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, California, 1973.
D. Michie, A. P. Ambler, H. G. Barrow, R. M. Burstall, R. J. Popplestone, and K. J. Turner. "Vision and manipulation as a programming problem." In Proceedings of the First Conference on Industrial Robot Technology, pages 185--190, Nottingham, 1973.
H. G. Barrow, A. P. Ambler, and R. M. Burstall. "Some techniques for recognizing structures in pictures." In S. Watanabe, editor, Frontiers of Pattern Recognition, pages 1--29. Academic Press, 1972.
H. G. Barrow and G. F. Crawford. "The mark 1.5 Edinburgh robot facility." In B. Meltzer and D. Michie, editors, Machine Intelligence 5, pages 465--480. Edinburgh University Press, 1972.
H. G. Barrow and R. J. Popplestone. "Relational descriptions in picture processing." In B. Meltzer and D. Michie, editors, Machine Intelligence 6, pages 377--396. Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
D. Michie, H. G. Barrow, Popplestone R. J, and S. H. Salter. "Tokyo-Edinburgh dialogue on robots in artificial intelligence research." Computer Journal, 14:91--95, 1971.
H. G. Barrow and S. H. Salter. "Design of low-cost equipment for cognitive robot research." In B. Meltzer and D. Michie, editors, Machine Intelligence 5, pages 555--566. Edinburgh University Press, 1970.
H. G. Barrow. "The development of a real-world interface." In Proceedings of the IEE Conference on Man-Machine Interaction, pages 89--94. IEE, 1970.
H. G. Barrow. "Some Spatial and Temporal Factors in Tactile Discrimination." Doctoral thesis, Department of Communication, University of Keele, 1968.
H. G. Barrow. "Punctate electrical stimulation of the skin, using high voltage sources." Master's thesis, Department of Communication, University of Keele, 1966.
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