Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1975
Professor Thompson's primary research interest is
in the area of visual perception. Currently, he is exploring how an
understanding of computational vision can aid in improving the spatial
information conveyed by graphical displays. He is also active in the
exploration of techniques for analyzing visual motion, sensing for
manufacturing, and vision-based navigation. Professor Thompson joined
the University of Utah in 1991 after 16 years in the Computer Science
Department at the University of Minnesota.
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W.B. Thompson, H.J de St. Germain, T.C. Henderson, and J. C. Owen.
Constructing High-Precision Geometric Models from Sensed Position Data.
In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop,
February 1996.
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K.T. Sutherland and W.B. Thompson.
Localizing in unstructured environments: Dealing with the errors.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, December 1994.
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W.B. Thompson and H.L. Pick, Jr.
Vision-based navigation.
In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, April
1993.
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W.B. Thompson and J.S. Painter.
Qualitative constraints for structure-from-motion.
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing B: Image
Understanding, July 1992.
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W.B. Thompson and T.C. Pong.
Detecting moving objects.
International Journal of Computer Vision, January 1990.
