KENT A. STEVENS
Professor of Computer Science
Department
of Computer and Information Science
Deschutes Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Education
Professional Affiliations
Member, National Research Council Committee on Vision
(1989-1992)
Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance (1989)
Associate Editor, Spatial Vision, 1990-1991
Associate, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1994-present
Positions
1990- Professor
1984-1990 Associate Professor
1982-1984 Assistant Professor
Department
of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
1980-1982 Consultant
Committee
on Vision, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
1979-1982 Research Scientist
1975-1978 Research Assistant
Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory and Department of Psychology
M.I.T.,
Cambridge, MA
1975 Research Assistant
1974 Associate Programming Analyst
Information
Sciences Department, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
1973 Software Systems Specialist
Division
for Computer Research and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD
1971-1972 Military service (IBM System 360 software
development)
Headquarters
Naval Intelligence Group, Washington, D.C.
1969-1971 Software Engineer
Advanced
Technology Division, Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, CA
1968-1971 Research Assistant
Department
of Engineering, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Research Interests
Vertebrate Paleontology: developing DinoMorph™, software for 3D visualization of articulated
skeletons, reconstruction of posture and movements of dinosaurs; estimation of
binocular fields of theropod dinosaurs.
Ophthalmology: metamorphopsia mapping (US Patent No. 5,892,970).
Human Vision: 3D shape and depth perception, stereopsis, edge
and geometry detection.
Machine Vision:
edge detection, visual tracking, symbology detection.
Stereoscopic Displays:
virtual reality, flight simulation, scientific visualization.
Publications
Refereed Publications:
1.
Stevens, Kent A. (1978) Computation of locally parallel
structure. Biological Cybernetics 29, 19-28.
2.
Stevens, Kent A. (1981) Computational analysis: a technique
for improving the visual simulation of terrain. Image II Conference. Appeared also in Vision research for
flight simulation. W. Richards & K.
Dismukes, eds. National Research Council, 1982.
3.
Stevens, Kent A. (1981) The visual interpretation of surface
contours. Artificial Intelligence 217, Special Issue on Computer Vision, 47-74.
4.
Stevens, Kent A. (1981) The information content of texture
gradients. Biological Cybernetics 42, 95-105.
5.
Stevens, Kent A. (1983) Surface tilt (the direction of surface
slant): a neglected psychophysical variable. Perception and Psychophysics 33,
241-250.
6.
Stevens, Kent A. (1983) The line of curvature constraint and
the interpretation of 3-D shape from parallel surface contours. Eighth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August, 1057-1061. Reprinted in Selections
in Natural Computation, W. Richards, ed.,
MIT Press/Bradford Books.
7.
Stevens, Kent A. (1983) Slant-tilt: The visual encoding of
surface orientation. Biological Cybernetics
46, 183-195.
8.
Stevens, Kent A. (1983) Evidence relating subjective contours
and interpretations involving occlusion. Perception 12,
491-500.
9.
Stevens, Kent A. (1983) Similarity, proximity, and the
perceptual grouping of dot contours. (with S. Zucker and P. Sander). Perception
and Psychophysics 34, 513-522.
10.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1983) False Dilemmas: Confusion between mechanism and computation.
Commentary on: The quantized geometry of visual space by S. Grossberg. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences 6, 675.
11.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1984) On gradients and texture “gradients”. Commentary on: Cutting & Millard 1984. Three gradients and the perception of flat and curved
surfaces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113,
217-220.
12.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1986) Autocorrelation has no merit in 3-D, figuratively. Review of:
W.R. Uttal 1985, The Detection of nonplanar surfaces. Contemporary
Psychology 31, 23-24.
13.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1986) 3-D shape from 2-D contour. Invited paper, Proceedings of the
Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Seattle, Washington, October.
14.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes 1987 Detecting structure by symbolic constructions on
tokens. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 37,
238-260.
15.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1987) Probing depth in monocular images. Biological
Cybernetics 56, 355-366.
16.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1987) Depth reconstruction in stereopsis. Proceeding
of the First IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, London, June, 682-686.
17.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1987) Implicit and Explicit Computation. Commentary on: Neuroethology
of releasing mechanisms: Prey-catching in toads, by J.E. Ewert. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences 10:3, 387-388.
18.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1988) Integrating stereopsis with monocular
interpretations of planar surfaces. Vision Research 28,
371-386.
19.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1988) The convex cusp as a determiner of
figure-ground. Perception 17, 35-42.
20.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1988) Differential Coupling for Detection versus Discrimination.
Commentary on: Sensory Analysis by D. Laming. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11:2, 310-311.
21.
Brookes,
Allen and Kent A. Stevens (1988) Binocular depth from surfaces vs. volumes. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 15(3),
479-484.
22.
Brookes,
Allen and Kent A. Stevens (1989) Local contour evidence of object occlusion. Proceedings
of the 1989 International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, 823-826.
23.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1989) Distinguishing bar- versus edge-like luminance
changes by a radially-symmetric parsing operator. Proceedings of the 1989
International Conference on Image Processing,
Singapore, 641-645.
24.
Lulich,
Daniel P. and Kent A. Stevens (1989) Differential contributions of circular and
elongated spatial filters to the Café wall illusion. Biological Cybernetics 61(6),
427-435.
25.
Brookes,
Allen and Kent A. Stevens (1989) The analogy between stereo depth and
brightness. Perception 18(5), 601-614.
26.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1990) A system for generation and modification of
stereo disparity in images. Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference
on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision,
Singapore.
27.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1991) Constructing the perception of surfaces from multiple cues. Mind
and Language 5(4), 253-266.
28.
Brookes,
Allen and Kent A. Stevens (1991) Symbolic grouping versus simple cell models. Biological
Cybernetics 65, 375-380.
29.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1991) The contribution of stereopsis to the perception of visual
surfaces. Society of Information Display International Symposium Digest 22,
819-822.
30.
Stevens,
Kent A., Marek Lees, and Allen Brookes (1991) Combining binocular and monocular
curvature features. Perception 20(4), 425-440.
31.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1995) Integration by association: Combining 3D cues to extrinsic
surface shape. Perception 24, 199-214.
32.
Stevens,
Kent A. and J. Michael Parrish (1999) Neck posture and feeding habits of two
Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. Science, 284, April 30, pp. 798-800.
33.
Ninio,
Jacques and Kent A. Stevens (2000) Variations on the Hermann Grid: a curious extinction illusion. Perception 29, 1209-1217.
34.
Stevens,
Kent A. (2002) DinoMorph: Parametric Modeling of Skeletal Structures. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 82(1), 23-34.
35.
Naish, Darren, David M. Martill, David Cooper, and Kent A.
Stevens (2004) Europe’s largest dinosaur? A giant brachiosaurid cervical
vertebra from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England.
Cretaceous Research 25,
787-795.
36.
Stevens,
Kent A. (2006) Binocular vision in theropod dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology. 26, 321-330.
37.
Parrish,
J. Michael, Matthew F. Bonnan, Jeanne P. Graba, Kent A. Stevens, and Phil
Senter (in press) Scapular position and function in the sauropodomorpha
(Reptilia: Saurischia). Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society.
38.
Sellers,
W., Kent A. Stevens, and Phil Manning (invited article). Reconstruction of the gait of the
dinosaur Edmontosaurus. Science, to appear.
39.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Eric D. Wills (in preparation). Representation and visualization of limb ranges of motion.
40.
Wills,
Eric D. and Kent A. Stevens (in preparation). Gait reconstruction within limb configuration spaces.
41.
Stevens, Kent A. and Eric D. Wills (in preparation). Analysis of the functional degrees of
freedom of a generalized forelimb.
Refereed Book Chapters
1.
Stevens, Kent A. (1979) Representing and analyzing surface
orientation. In Artificial
intelligence: An MIT perspective P.H.
Winston and R.H. Brown, eds., 104-125.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
2.
Stevens, Kent A. (1986) Inferring shape from contours across
surfaces. In From pixels to
predicates: Recent advances in computational vision. A.P. Pentland, ed., 93-110. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
3.
Stevens, Kent A. (1988) Visual object perception from a
computational perspective. In Visual
object processing. G. Humphreys & J. Riddoch, eds.,
17-42. New York: Erlbaum.
4.
Stevens, Kent A. (1991) The perception of three-dimensionality
across continuous surfaces. In Pictorial
communication in virtual and real environments.
S. Ellis, ed. London: Taylor & Francis.
5.
Stevens, Kent A. and J. Michael Parrish (2005) Neck posture,
dentition and feeding strategies in Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. In Thunderlizards:
the sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Virginia
Tidwell and Kenneth Carpenter, eds.
Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
6.
Stevens, Kent A. and J. Michael Parrish. (2005) Biological
Implications of digital reconstructions of the whole body of sauropod
dinosaurs. The Sauropods:
Evolucation and paleobiology. Kristi Curry
Rogers, and Jeffrey Wilson, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
7.
Stevens, Kent A., Peter Larson, Eric D. Wills, and Art
Anderson (in press) Rex, sit. Digital modeling of Tyrannosaurus rex at
rest. In: Tyrannosaurus rex: The tyrant king, Larson, P. and K. Carpenter, eds. Indiana University Press. Invited
chapter for an an upcoming book based on the Black Hills Institute symposium
100 Years of Tyrannosaurus rex, June, 2005.
8.
Parrish, J. Michael, Michael Henderson, and Kent A. Stevens
(upcoming) Functional implications of ontogenetic changes in the glenohumeral
joint within the tyrannosauridae. Invited chapter for an upcoming book based on
the Burpee Museum Tyrannosaur Symposium, P. Larson and K. Carpenter, eds.
September, 2005.
Technical reports:
1.
Stevens, Kent A. and Richard A. Lewis (1975) Manipulator
software and the robot: Interfaces and use. California Institute of Technology, JPL Guidance and Control
Memo 343-202.
2.
Stevens, Kent A. Meir Weinstein (1975) Robotic design: the
operative subsystem. California
Institute of Technology, Information Science Technical Report 16.
3.
Stevens, Kent A. and Meir Weinstein (1975) Robotic design: the
manipulation OP module. California
Institute of Technology, Information Science Technical Report 20.
4.
Richards, Whitman and Kent A. Stevens (1979) Efficient
Computations and Representations of Visible Surfaces. Final Report AFOSR Contract Number 79-0020.
5.
Stevens, Kent A.
(1980) Surface perception from local analysis of texture and contour. M.I.T.
A.I. Lab TR 512.
6.
Beck, Jacob and Kent A. Stevens (1986) Visual representations
subserving texture perception.
Final Report AFOSR Contract Number F4962-083-C-0093.
7.
Stevens, Kent A. and Jacob Beck (1986) On the integration of
depth information. Final Report
ONR Contract Number N00014-84-K-0533.
8.
Beck, Jacob and Kent A. Stevens 1988 Representing visual
texture. Final Report AFOSR Grant
Number AFOSR-85-0359.
9.
Stevens, Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1988) Binocular depth and
the perception of visual surfaces.
Technical Report 88-01, Office of Naval Research Contract Number
N0014-87-K-0321.
10.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Allen Brookes (1988) Reconstruction of binocular depth across
continuous surfaces. Technical
Report 88-02, Office of Naval Research Contract Number N0014-87-K-0321.
11.
Stevens,
Kent A. and Jacob Beck (1990) Stereopsis and the combination of surface
cues. Final Report ONR Contract
Number N00014-87-K-0321.
12.
Stevens,
Kent A. (1995) Recommendations regarding the use of textures for cuing surface
slant and shape in flight simulation.
AL/HR-TR-1995-0081, Mesa AZ Armstrong Laboratory, Aircrew Training
Research Division.
Reviewer
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Human Factors Society, International
Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, International
Journal of Computer Vision, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance,
National Science Foundation, Neural Networks, Perception, Perception and
Psychophysics, Psychological Review, Science, Spatial Vision, Mesa Southwest
Museum Review, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Symposium on Bird Origins,
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Contracts and Grants
1979 Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Contract Number
AFOSR-79-0020. $72,000 for one
year. Research on surface
perception with Whitman Richards, co-principal investigator. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1983 Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Image
Understanding Program Contract Number F49620-83-C-0093. $185,000 for first two
years of contract. Research on texture perception with Jacob Beck, co-principal
investigator. University of Oregon.
1983 DoD-University Research Instrumentation Program. Equipment Grant Number
AFOSR-83-0220. $97,000 for one
year. Computer equipment to support vision research in conjunction with
AFOSR-sponsored research. Jacob Beck,
co-principal investigator. University of Oregon.
1983 National Science Foundation. Computer Science and
Computer Engineering Research Equipment Grant Number MCS-8304497. $90,000 for
one year. With Arthur Farley and Stephen Fickas. University of Oregon.
1984 Office of Naval Research, Engineering Psychology. Contract Number N00014-84-K-0533.
$260,975 for two years. Research
on surface perception with Jacob Beck, co-principal investigator. University of Oregon.
1984
DoD-University Research Instrumentation Program. Equipment Grant number AFOSR-83-0220
DEF. $80,275 for one year. Computer equipment to support vision research in
conjunction with AFOSR sponsored research. Jacob Beck, co-principal investigator. University of Oregon.
1985 Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Image
Understanding Program Grant Number AFOSR-85-0359. $268,426 for three years.
Research on texture perception with Jacob Beck, co-principal investigator.
University of Oregon.
1987 Office of Naval Research, Engineering Psychology. Contract Number N0014-87-K-0321.
$370,000 for three years. Research
on surface perception with Jacob Beck, co-principal investigator. University of Oregon.
1990 Office of Naval Research, Perceptual Sciences
Program. Contract Number
N00014-90-J-1472 $368,934 for
three years. Research on attention
and surface perception with Allen Brookes, co-principal investigator. University of Oregon.
1991 Pew-McDonnell Grant for the Study of Cognitive
Neuroscience of Attention.
Co-principal investigator with 6 others. University of Oregon.
1993 Oregon Advanced Computing Institute. Grant for “Image Processing System for
Tracking Movement”, $20,000.
1994 Oregon State System of Higher Education (and NASA) “Networked Stereoscopic Displays with Application to Ophthalmology”, with M.
Klein, M.D., $75,000 for one year.
1995 The Dinosaur Society. Grant for “Computer Modeling of
Sauropod Cervical Vertebral Function”, with J. Michael Parrish, $13,800 for one
year.
1996 The Dinosaur Society. Grant for “Computer Analysis of Cervical
and Cranial Morphology in Saurischian Dinosaurs”, with J. Michael Parrish,
$15,000 for one year.
2001 National Science Foundation. Grant for “Aspects of the
Functional Morphology of Sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia)” with J. Michael Parrish. $300,000 for two years
(UO fraction: $138,972).
Patents
1994 Automated Camera-Based Tracking System for Sports
Contests. With Noble G. Larson,
co-inventor. U.S. Patent Number
5,363,297. November 8, 1994.
1997 Method and Apparatus for Measuring and Correcting
Metamorphopsia. US. Patent No.
5,892,970.
Representation of Skeletal Level of Detail. With Scott W. Ernst and Eric D. Wills. In preparation.
Talks, Panels, and Posters
1.
“Locally parallel structure”. Optical Society of America, Toronto, Canada. October, 1977.
2.
Contributor. Workshop on Quantifying Visual Scene
Parameters. Sponsored by
AFOSR. July, 1978.
3.
“Structure in texture”.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Biological Information Processing Summer
Workshop, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
August, 1978.
4.
Contributor. ARPA
Image Understanding Workshop.
Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November, 1978.
5.
“Visual analysis of surface texture and contour”. Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference, Jackson, Wyoming.
January, 1979.
6.
Panelist and speaker.
Review of Air Force Sponsored Basic Research. Colorado Springs, Colorado. March, 1979.
7.
“Computing surface shape”. Electrical Engineering Department. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. April, 1979.
8.
“Visual cue analysis in flight simulation”. National Academy of Sciences Symposium
on Applied Problems in Vision.
Washington, D.C. April,
1979.
9.
“Geometric constraints for analyzing contours”. Electrical Engineering Department. University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February,
1980.
10.
Principal
Investigator's Summary. ARPA Image
Understanding Workshop. University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
April, 1980.
11.
Contributor.
Workshop on visual flight simulation.
National Research Council and Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Williams AFB, Arizona. June, 1980.
12.
Panelist
and speaker. Image
Generation/Display Conference II.
Sponsored by the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Scottsdale,
Arizona. June, 1981.
13.
“Evidence
of place tokens in early vision”.
The Marr Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. April, 1983.
14.
“High
technology in the 80s”. Guest
speaker, TAPPI/PIMA Conference, Sun River, Oregon. May, 1983.
15.
“Computer
science issues that arise in understanding vision". Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
May, 1983.
16.
“Visual
representations”. Speaker and
Chair, Cognitive Science Program symposium on visual representations. University of Oregon. October, 1983.
17.
“Shape
predicates and texture gradient psychophysics”. Invited talk, Vision Review. Endicott House, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. January,
1984.
18.
Contributor. Workshop on Perceptual
Organization. Fairchild Camera and
Instrument Corporation. February,
1984.
19.
“Early
representations of visual texture: symbolic versus analogic”. Invited talk, Department of Computer
Science, University of British Columbia.
April, 1984.
20.
“Visual
primitives and their aggregation processes in texture”. Review of Sponsored Research, Air Force
Office of Scientific Research. Sarasota, Florida. May, 1984.
21.
“Semi-invariants
over back-projection”. Invited
talk, Workshop on Perceptual Organization. Pajaro Dunes. June, 1984.
22.
“Inferring
Gaussian curvature from curves across surfaces”. Optical Society of America, San Diego, California. October, 1984.
23.
“Localization
of point-like grouping tokens”.
Third Human and Machine Vision Workshop. Boston, Massachusetts. November, 1985.
24.
“Grouping
tokens and attribute selection”.
Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Whistler, British
Columbia. February, 1986.
25.
“Integrating
stereopsis and monocular surface interpretations”. Visual Perception and Neural Computation, ONR principal
investigators meeting, Endicott House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. June, 1986.
26.
“3-D
shape from 2-D contour”. Invited
talk, Optical Society of America, Seattle, Washington. October, 1986.
27.
“Local
geometric evidence for figure-ground”.
Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson, Wyoming. January, 1987.
28.
“Theory
of depth reconstruction in stereopsis”.
Invited talk, University of California, Berkeley. May, 1987.
29.
“The
perception of three-dimensionality across continuous surfaces”. Invited talk, Spatial Displays and
Spatial Instruments.
NASA-sponsored symposium and workshop. Asilomar, California.
August, 1987.
30.
“Geometric
interpretation of luminance changes”.
Review of Vision Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Annapolis, Maryland. December,
1987.
31.
“Integrating
stereopsis and monocular depth”.
Thirteenth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson, Wyoming. January, 1988.
32.
“The
reconstruction of continuous surfaces from stereo measurements and monocular
inferences”. Invited talk,
Conference on Vision and Three Dimensional Representation, University of
Minnesota. May, 1989.
33.
“Surface
shape, integration of 3D cues and computational problems”. Keynote address, Fifth International
Conference on Event Perception and Action, Miami University, Ohio. July, 1989.
34.
“Distinguishing
bar- versus edge-like luminance changes by a radially-symmetric parsing
operator”. 1989 International
Conference on Image Processing, Singapore. September, 1989.
35.
“The
role of curvature features in constructing perceived surfaces”. Invited talk. Computational and Biological Models of Visual Processing. Trieste. February, 1990.
36.
“The
reconstruction of binocular depth”.
Invited talk. Reed
College. April, 1990.
37.
“On
perceiving surfaces from monocular and binocular information”. Invited talk. Department of Cognitive Science. University of California, Irvine. April, 1990.
38.
“A
system for generation and modification of stereo disparity in images. Invited
talk. 1990 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer
Vision, Singapore. September, 1990.
39.
“The
Contribution of stereopsis to the perception of visual surfaces”. Invited talk. International Symposium, Society of Information Display,
Anaheim. May, 1991.
40.
“Stereopsis
and Visual Attention”. ONR
Principal Investigators Meeting, Caltech, Pasadena. September, 1991.
41.
“Binocular
and monocular curvature integration”.
International Conference and NATO Advanced Research Workshop on
Binocular and Optic Flow. York
University, Toronto. June, 1993.
42.
“Psychophysics
and psychometrics of binocular stereopsis, as they relate to VR”. Invited talk. General Motors Research Laboratories. Warren. March, 1994.
43.
“Edge
detection for robotic vision: a
system modeled on biological vision”.
Invited talk. Thammasat
University Engineering English Program.
Bangkok. September, 1994.
44.
“Binocular
vision: theory and applications to
3D displays”. Invited talk. Asian Institute of Technology. Bangkok. September, 1994.
45.
“Computer
modeling of sauropod cervical vertebral function”. Poster. Annual
Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Pittsburgh. November, 1995.
46.
“Articulating
three-dimensional computer models of sauropod cervical vertebrae”. Annual Meeting of the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology, New York.
October, 1996.
47.
“Getting
it straight: reconstructing the
necks of diplodocid dinosaurs”.
Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Derby,
England. September, 1997.
48.
“Binocular
vision in theropod dinosaurs”.
Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago. October, 1997.
49.
“Comparative
feeding envelopes of two diplodocids”.
Poster. Annual Meeting of
the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago. October, 1997.
50.
“Realism,
reality, and virtual reality”.
Invited talk at the Getty Educational Institute for the Arts conference "Virtual Realities: The
implications of VR for Teaching and Learning”. June 19, 1998.
51.
“Undoing
the death pose: using computer
imaging to restore the posture of articulated dinosaur skeletons” with J.
Michael Parrish. Poster. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Snowbird, UT. September, 1998.
52.
“DinoMorph: a digital means for creating
articulated 3D models of quadrupedal skeletons”. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Snowbird, UT. September, 1998.
53.
“Posing
the Diplodocus”. Invited talk,
Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL. November, 1998.
54.
“Articulating
digital reconstructions of sauropod dinosaurs”. Invited talk, Department of Zoology, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, January, 1999.
55.
“Inferring
2D and 3D shape from images”.
Invited talk, Laboratorie de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris. June, 1999.
56.
“Mathematicians
know about mathematics, but does the visual system?” Invited talk, Laboratorie de Physique Statistique de l’Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, June, 1999.
57.
“Computational
reflections on the nature of vision”.
Invited talk, Institute Des Hautes Études Scientifiques, July, 1999.
58.
“A
Discrete Event Framework for Spatial and Hierarchical Ecological Models. IASTED
International Conference on Applied Modeling and Simulation” with Kevin A. Glass.
September 1-3, 1999, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
59.
“Some
principles underlying the design of sauropod necks”. Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative
Anatomy, Edinburgh, September, 1999.
60.
“Digital
Models of joint articulation”.
Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy,
Portsmouth, England. September,
2000.
61.
“Gracile
versus robust cervical vertebral designs in sauropods” with Eric D. Wills. Annual Meeting of the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology, Bozeman, MT.
October, 2001. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3) suppl. p. 104A.
62.
“Biological
Implications of digital reconstructions of the whole body of sauropod
dinosaurs” with J. Michael Parrish. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology, Bozeman, MT. October,
2001. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3) suppl. p. 104A.
63.
“Neck
mobility in long-necked vertebrates: from modern mammals to sauropods” with J.
Michael Parrish. Jena, Germany. July, 2001 Journal of Morphology 248:270.
64.
“Reconstruction
of the forelimb of a juvenile sauropod from the Isle of Wight” Symposium on
Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge, England. September, 2002.
65.
“Mass-based
biomechanical computations on sauropod dinosaurs”. with J. Michael Parrish. Annual Meeting of the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology, Norman, OK
October, 2002. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3) suppl. p. 111A.
66.
“Rib
angulation, scapular position, and body profiles in sauropod dinosaurs” with J.
Michael Parrish. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Norman, OK October, 2002. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
22(3) suppl. p. 95A.
67.
“Neck
biomechanics of theropod dinosaurs” with Tanya Samman and Philip J.
Currie. Annual Meeting of the
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, St. Paul, MN October, 2003.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3) suppl. p. 92A.
68.
“The
taphonomic setting of two mired sauropods (Wessex Fm, Isle of Wight, UK),
Palaeoecological implications and
taxon preservation bias in a lower Cretaceous wetland” with Denver Fowler and
Keith Simmonds and Mick Green.
Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, St. Paul,
MN October, 2003. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
23(3) suppl. p. 51A.
69.
“The
neck position of sauropod dinosaurs - virtual reconstruction within DinoMorph”,
invited guest talk, Third Working Meeting of the Research Unit Sauropod
Biology, Aathal, Switzerland, April, 2005.
70.
“Rex,
sit. Modeling tyrannosaurid
postures” with Peter Larson, and Eric D. Wills. Invited talk, Black Hills Institute
Symposium 100 Years of Tyrannosaurus rex, June, 2005.
71.
“Ontogenetic
changes within the tyrannosaurid skeleton” with J. Michael Parrish and Eric D.
Wills. Invited talk, Burpee Museum
Tyrannosaur Symposium, September, 2005.
72.
“Functional
implications of ontogenetic changes in the glenohumeral joint within the
tyrannosauridae” with J. Michael Parrish and Michael Henderson. Invited talk,
Burpee Museum Tyrannosaur Symposium. September, 2005.
73.
“Scapular
position and function in the sauropodomorpha (Reptilia: Saurischia)” Matthew
Bonnan, J. Michael Parrish, Kent A. Stevens, Jeanne Graba, and Phil
Senter. Annual Meeting of the
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mesa, AZ October, 2005. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
25(3) suppl. p. 38A.
74.
“3D
Visualization allometric changes in whole skeletons: Posture, proportion, and range of motion” with Eric D.
Wills, and Scott W. Ernst. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3) suppl. p.
128A.
75.
“Kinematic
constraints on the reconstruction of dinosaur gaits” with Eric D. Wills,
Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Glasgow,
Scotland. September, 2007.
76.
“Isolating
functional degrees of freedom in limbs during locomotion” Poster, with Eric D.
Wills. Symposium on Vertebrate
Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Glasgow, Scotland. September, 2007.
Other Professional Activities and Public Outreach
Television and Radio
Discovery Channel. PaleoWorld, “The Secret of the
brontosaurus”. March, 1997.
@discover.ca. Canadian science television series.
November, 1997.
ABC/Discover News. Broadcast interview on dinosaur vision,
October 16, 1998.
Discovery Channel. “The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs”. March, 1999.
National Public Radio. “Sounds like Science”.
Discovery Channel. “Dinosaur Attack”. September, 1999.
BBC. Series Paleontological Consultant for “Walking with
Dinosaurs”, and the “Making of Walking with Dinosaurs”, October, 1999 in UK,
April, 2000 in US.
National Geographic
Television. “The Human Edge”. Fall, 2002.
NHK TV Japan. “Discovering the Mysteries of
Dinosaurs”. August, 2002.
Oregon Public
Broadcasting. “Oregon Field
Guide”. October, 2003.
BBC. “The truth about killer
dinosaurs”. Broadcast August, 2005
on BBC, November, 2005 on Discovery Channel.
BBC. Interactive TV, August 2005, special aired directly after “The truth about killer dinosaurs”.
Extensive digital sequences created in DinoMorph™ of Baryonyx.
Science Channel. “Dino Lab”. September, 2006 , interviews, digital animations, screenplay editing.
National Geographic
Television. “Dinosaur Autopsy” under production. interviews, digital media
Periodicals
Undo (Japan). June, 1996.
Discover Magazine. “Dinosaurs in Motion”, cover article on
cyberpaleontology. Carl Zimmer,
November, 1997.
Illustreret Videnskad. May, 1998.
Konr@d. January, 1998.
Earth Magazine. Cover article on binocular vision in
theropod dinosaurs. June, 1998.
National Geographic Magazine. Interactive page and website special on
DinoMorph™ computer modeling, November, 1998.
Spektrum. Der Wissenschaft. July, 1999.
Science & Vie Junior. July, 1999.
Universum. December, 2000.
L' Ordinateur individuel. April, 2001.
Los Angeles Times, “70 Million
Year Old Moves” Lee Holtz. June 18, 2001
Computing in Science & Engineering/IEEE Intelligent
Systems 4 “Computer-Aided Paleontology: a new look for dinosaurs” David I. Lewin, February, 2002.
Geo Lino, December, 2002.
Oregon Business Magazine,
June, 2005.
Newsweek, June, 2005. Artwork plus article.
Quo Magazine (Spanish), June,
2005.
BBC Focus, July, 2005.
Teen Newsweek, September, 2005
Geotimes, June, 2005. Cover
artwork plus article.
Eugene Register Guard, June,
2005.
Encyclopedias and Popular Books
Outside and Inside Dinosaurs,
Sandra Markle, Atheneum Books, 2000.
Science Year 2001, The World
Book Annual Science Supplement.
The Natural History Museum Book of Dinosaurs, Tim Gardom and Angela Milner, Carlton Books, 2001.
Dinosaurs:
Herbivores. Dougal Dixon, Ticktock
Books, 2001.
Bringing Dinosaur Bones to Life. James Farlow, Franklin Watts, 2001.
Dinosaurs. The
Encyclopedia, Supplements 1-3. Donald F. Glut. McFarland & Company, 2000, 2002,
2003.
Bones Rock!, Peter Larson and
Kristin Donnan. Invisible Cities
Press, 2004.
Terra: Our 100 million-year-old ecosystem.
Michael Novacek and Elizabeth Sifton. Strauss and Giroux, in press.
Museums and Exhibitions
Fernbank
Museum of Natural History. Invited
contributor to special exhibit on innovation in paleontology. May, 1997.
Museum of Science and Industry
(Tampa, FL). Consultant on
mounting two casts of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus, 1998.
National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution.
Advisor to the Virtual Triceratops Project. “Learning to dissect dinosaurs digitally” Science 288. June
9, pp. 1718-1732, 2000.
The Millennium Dome. BBC/Framestore Director Mike Milne and
I are shown in “Global Connections” exhibit in London, through 2000.
American Museum of Natural
History. “Dinosaurs: Ancient
Fossils, New Discoveries”.
Exhibition featuring DinoMorph™
interactives, interview.
Opened May, 2005, subsequently traveling to other museums.
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History. Major permanent
interactive display and media for “Dinosaurs in Their Time” renovation
project. November, 2007.