Todd Templeton

Education

• Ph.D. & M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, advisor S. Shankar Sastry
• B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Interests

• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Geometric computer vision
• Robotics, particularly unmanned vehicles
• Control
• Embedded systems
• Large-scale computation

Publications

• T. Templeton. Accurate Real-Time Reconstruction of Distant Scenes Using Computer Vision: The Recursive Multi-Frame Planar Parallax Algorithm. UC Berkeley EECS Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-180 (Ph.D. dissertation).
• H. Gonzalez, E. I. Grøtli, T. R. Templeton, J. O. Biermeyer, J. Sprinkle, and S. Shankar Sastry. Transitioning Control and Sensing Technologies from Fully-autonomous Driving to Driver Assistance Systems. Presented at AAET'08. Poster presented at BEARS'08.
• B. Upcroft, M. Moser, A. Makarenko, D. Johnson, A. Donikan, A. Alempijevic, R. Fitch, W. Uther, J. Biermeyer, H. Gonzalez, E. I. Grøtli, T. Templeton, V. P. Srini, J. Sprinkle. DARPA Urban Challenge Technical Paper: Sydney-Berkeley Driving Team. Technical report, University of Sydney; University of Technology, Sydney; University of California, Berkeley, June, 2007.
• J. M. Eklund, J. Sprinkle, T. Templeton, and S. Sastry. Transitioning Intelligence to Embedded Platforms. Presented at NATO RTO Symposium on Platform Innovations and System Integration for Unmanned Air, Land and Sea Vehicles '07.
• T. Templeton, D. H. Shim, C. Geyer, and S. Sastry. Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft. Presented at ICRA'07.
• T. Templeton. Autonomous Vision-based Rotorcraft Landing and Accurate Aerial Terrain Mapping in an Unknown Environment. UC Berkeley EECS Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2007-18 (M.S. report).
• C. Geyer, T. Templeton, M. Meingast, and S. Sastry. The Recursive Multi-Frame Planar Parallax Algorithm. Presented at 3DPVT'06.

Teaching & Mentoring

• Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB-IT) (Mentor, Summer 2006)
• CS169, Software Engineering (Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, Fall 2004)
• ELE302, System Design and Analysis (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Spring 2004)

Open Source Contributions

• Whiteboard Courseware System
• NASA Vision Workbench
• CRRCSim: Charles River RC Flight Simulator

Past Projects

• Berkeley-Sydney Driving Team (DARPA Grand Challenge III)
• Autonomous Rotorcraft Landing Using Computer Vision
• Autonomous Control of Ultralight Air Vehicles

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