Helen Chan Wolf is an artificial intelligence pioneer who worked on facial recognition technology and Shakey the robot, the world's first autonomous robot, at SRI International.
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Career
editIn the early 1960s, Wolf worked with Charles Bisson and Woody Bledsoe at Panoramic Research to train computers in recognising human faces (so-called automated facial recognition).[1][2] Early computer programs used humans to coordinate a set of features from images of faces and then a computer for the recognition.[3] These features included things such as the positions the inside and outside corners of eyes and mouth. Operators such as these could process around forty pictures an hour.[citation needed]
Wolf joined the Artificial Intelligence group at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) in 1966.[4] At the SRI Chan was part of the Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance project.[4][5] Here she worked on Shakey the robot, the world's first mobile autonomous robot, which was honoured by an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Milestone in 2017.[6][7] Shakey used artificial intelligence, making its own plans, navigating between places and improving through learning. Wolf developed the algorithms that extracted coordinates from images.[6] Before Shakey, there were no efforts to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics into a single moving vehicle.[8]
Selected publications
editHer publications include:
- Wolf, Helen C. (1977). "Experiments in Map-Guided Photo Interpretation" (PDF). Proceedings of the Fifth IJCAI. Cambridge, Mass. p. 696.
- Wolf, Helen C. (1977). "Parametric Correspondence and Chamfer Matching: Two New Techniques for Image Matching". Technical Note. Archived from the original on December 30, 2019.
- Wolf, Helen C. (Feb 1994). "Locating perceptually salient points on planar curves". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 16 (2): 113–129. doi:10.1109/34.273737.
- Wolf, Helen C. (1987). "Linear Delineation". Readings in Computer Vision: 204–209. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-051581-6.50025-8. ISBN 9780080515816.
References
edit- ^ Nilsson, Nils J. (2009-10-30). The Quest for Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-64282-8.
- ^ "The Future of Facial Recognition and AI in 2019 and Beyond". Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ House, Somerset. "The Evolution of Data | Big Bang Data". bigbangdata.somersethouse.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ a b "AI Center:: Helen Chan Wolf". www.ai.sri.com. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ "AI Center :: Projects". www.ai.sri.com. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ a b "25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017 | Robohub". Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ Shakey the Robot: The First Robot to Embody Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2019-12-30
- ^ "Shakey - CHM Revolution". www.computerhistory.org. Retrieved 2019-12-30.