The April IEEE meeting will be on the 17th at 6pm, with dinner.  Non-members pay $5.00 
It will be held at Jacksonville University in the Davis College of Business and Technology big conference room on the first floor.  Parking is free.

See the site calendar for more details. Please RSVP to the IEEE e-notice if you plan to attend.

Subject: Machine Vision Object Recognition by Mr. Butch Shadwell
The author was the principal investigator and manager of a large applied research project in machine vision, conducted at Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute. The challenge was to be able to automatically recognize any one of over 7 million rail cars on sight. These cars might be in various states of deterioration, different times of day, and at speeds varying from a few miles an hour, up to 50 mph. This presentation includes a very interesting review of the machine vision problem domain and the solutions employed. There is a 10 minute video that shows some of the field experiments.

Speaker Bio: Butch Shadwell
A retired consultant in applied physics and electronics, Butch Shadwell has been working in electronics since he was 12 years old. In his extraordinary career he has worked with almost every kind of technology in the electronics industry, including applied research and development in nuclear medicine, opto-electronics, electronic warfare, robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, artificial intelligence, digital television, special sensors and embedded systems.

A senior member of the IEEE, he is active on the IEEE Energy Policy Committee and the IEEE Research Policy Committee. In 2009 he was selected as the international chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge – Reliable Electricity, at the National Academy of Sciences.

He has conducted sponsored research at Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute and received over $1 million in grants for his work in machine vision. For twenty-three years he had a successful consulting practice developing new technologies for dozens of companies. His clients included multi-billion dollar companies, and as an active volunteer in IEEE has been a featured speaker at many universities, sections, and student branches around the world.

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