PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Computational image sensors; Bio-inspired vision computation; Algorithms and architectures for fine-grain parallel analog computation; Analog and mixed mode VLSI; Computer vision; Image Processing; Robotics, Entrepreneurship.

EDUCATION
Ph. D., 1996, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.S., 1990, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
M.S., 2000, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.S., 1987, Electrical Engineering,  University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2003-date: President and CEO, Intrigue Technologies, Inc.
2003-2004: Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute
2001-2002: Business Strategy Consultant, Mercer Management Consulting
1996-2003: Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute
1990-1996: Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute
1988-1990: Research Assistant, Rutgers University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

HONORS
Anton Philips Award for the best student paper at 1996 International. Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Elected a team president for the "Management Game" at Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 1999
Member of Beta Gamma Sigma honor society (inducted 2000)

EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES

Session Chair: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004
Consultant, DARPA, 2002

Consultant, Hatch, Inc., 2002

Consultant, Carnegie Mellon Technology Transfer Office, 2001

Consultant, Mine Safety Appliances,  2001

Consultant, ABB, 1998
Consultant, Kaiser Engineering (now Hatch, Inc.), 1996

Session Organizer and Chair, "Computational Sensors for Vision," Future of Measurement and Control, ISA Conference and Expo, 1998

Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).

EXTERNAL GRANTS

The Technology Collaborative: $199,870, 6/06-5/07, Role: PI (Intrigue Technologies, Inc.)
    "RoboRetina®: Illumination-Invariant Image Processor for Security and Robotics Applications"

The Technology Collaborative: $199,870, 1/05-12/05, Role: PI (Intrigue Technologies, Inc.)
    "Ultra-Fast 3D Imaging Camera for Demanding Price/Performance Applications"

National Science Foundation: SBIR Phase II $499,995, 1/05-12/06, Role: PI (Intrigue Technologies, Inc.)
    "A Reflectance Sensitive Retina"

National Science Foundation: SBIR Phase I $100,000, 1/04-6/04, Role: PI (Intrigue Technologies, Inc.)
    "A Reflectance Sensitive Retina"

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse: $100,000, 9/03-8/04, Role: Co-PI (PI: Daniel Parvod, The Western Pennsylvania Hospital)
    "Patient Contour Measurement System for Radiotherapy"

National Science Foundation: $400,000, 9/01-8/04, Role: Co-PI (PI: Martial Hebert)
    "Capturing and Interpreting Dynamic 3D Scenes"

National Science Foundation: $335,000, 9/00-8/03, Role: PI
    "Sensory Level Computation and Information Encoding for Robust Imaging"

ABB Group: $230,000, 6/99-5/01, Role: PI
    "Ultra fast Range Imaging Sensor"

Office of Naval Research: $5,000,000, 10/95-9/00. Role: Co-PI (PI: Takeo Kanade)
    "Integrated Vision and Sensing for Human Sensory Augmentation"

 

1. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "When are the Smart Vision Sensors Smart? An example of an illumination-adaptive image sensor," Sensor Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 156 - 166, Emerald, April 2004 (Selected as one of the top three papers in the journal for the year 2004).
2. N. Jankovic and V. Brajovic, "Light-Sensitive CMOS Ring Oscillator," IEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 36, No. 15, pp. 1281-1283, 2000.
3. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "A VLSI Sorting Image Sensor: Global Massively Parallel Intensity-to-time Processing for Low Latency, Adaptive Vision," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 67-75, 1999.
4. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "Computational Sensor for Visual Tracking with Attention," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 1199 - 1207, 1998.
5. V. Brajovic, R. Miyagawa and T. Kanade, "Temporal Photoreception for Adaptive Dynamic Range Image Sensing and Encoding," (invited paper) Neural Networks, Vol. 11, No. 7-8, pp. 1149-1158, 1998.

1. Jan Neumann, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, V. Brajovic, "Compound Eye Sensor for 3D Ego Motion Estimation," 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2004
2. V. Brajovic: "Brightness Perception, Dynamic Range and Noise: A Unifying Model for Adaptive Image Sensors," IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on
   Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington, DC, 27th June - 2nd July, 2004
3. V. Brajovic: "Illumination-Invariant Imaging for Machine Vision Applications in Unconstrained Environments," Automation and Assembly Summit, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, May 10 - 12, 2004, Fort Worth, Texas, (Invited paper).
4. V. Brajovic, "Fast Row-Parallel CMOS Range Image Sensor," IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2004
5. V. Brajovic, "Reflectance Sensitive Retina," SPIE International Technical Group on Electronic Imaging Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 1, January, 2004.
6. V. Brajovic, "Shot Noise Suppression in Image Sensors," to appear in SPIE Proc., Visual Information Processing, Defense&Security Symposium, 12-16 April, 2004, Orlando, Florida
7. Ralph Gross and V. Brajovic, "An Image Preprocessing Algorithm for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition," 4th Int. Con. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), pp. 10-18, June 9-11, 2003. Guildford, UK
8. V. Brajovic, "A Model for Reflectance Perception in Vision," SPIE, EMT03 - Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2003, 19-22 May, 2003. Gran Canaria, Spain.
9. V. Brajovic, "Lossless Non-Arbitrated Address-Event Coding," Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS2003, 25-28 May, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand.
10. V. Brajovic, K. Mori, and N.D. Jankovic, "100 frames/s CMOS Range Image Sensor," Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, February 2001, pp. 256-257.
11. V. Brajovic, "Sensory Computing," Proc. SPIE Critical Technologies for the Future of Computing, Vol. 4019. 2001.
12. V. Brajovic, "A Triangulation-based VLSI Range Mapper," ISA EXPO '98, Houston, TX, October 21,  1998.
13. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "Integrated Vision and Sensing for Human Sensory Augmentation," DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp. 1335-1343, May 11-14, 1997.
14. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "Sensory Attention: A Computational Sensor Paradigm for Low-Latency Adaptive Vision," Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 1638-1643, 1996.
15. V. Brajovic and T. Kanade, "A New Technique for Global Operations in Embedded Imagers," Proc. IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, pp. 1995.
16. V. Brajovic, "Computational Sensors for Global Operations," DARPA Image Understanding Workshop,  1994.

1. V. Brajovic, "An Object Tracking Computational Sensors," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-01-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001.
2. V. Brajovic, "A Sorting Computational Sensor," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-96-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
3. V. Brajovic, "Computational Sensor for Global Operations in Vision," Ph.D. Thesis, Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-96-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
4. V. Brajovic, "A Real-Time 3D Range Mapper Using On-Line Structured Illumination," M.S. Thesis, Rutgers University, 1990.

1. V. Brajovic,“- title withheld -,” U.S. Patent Application, June, 2004.
2. V. Brajovic,“Method for Improving Digital Images and an Image Sensor for Sensing the Same,” U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 60/499,132, August 29, 2003.
3. V. Brajovic, “Method and Apparatus for Rapid Range Imaging,” U.S. Patent #6,421,132, June 16, 2002.
4. V. Brajovic, “Focal Plane Processor,” U.S. Patent # 5,699,278, December 16, 1997.

1. V. Brajovic, -title withheld-, CMU Invention Disclosure 03-039, November 2002.
2. V. Brajovic, -title withheld-, CMU Invention Disclosure 02-081, April 2002.
3. V. Brajovic, “Triangulation-Based High Resolution VLSI Range Sensor,” CMU Invention Disclosure 98-059, 1998.
4. V. Brajovic, “An Image Sensor,” CMU Invention Disclosure 96-047, 1996.
5. V. Brajovic, “Winner-Take-All Tracking Array,” CMU Invention Disclosure 95-045, 1995.
6. V. Brajovic, “An Image Sensor with Built-in image enhancement Capability,” CMU Invention Disclosure 94-037, 1994.

1. V. Brajovic, "Computational Sensor for Global Operations in Vision," Ph.D. Thesis, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January 1996. (Thesis advisor: Dr. Takeo Kanade)
2. V. Brajovic, "Real-Time 3D Range Mapper," M.S. Thesis, Electrical and Computer Enginerring Department, Rutgers University, May 1990. (Thesis advisor: Dr. Joseph Wilder).
3. V. Brajovic, “Thermally Stable D/A Converter Module," B.S. Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, University of Belgrade, December 1987. (Thesis advisor: Dr. Dejan Zivkovic).

• "What Should Camera be Like 20 years from now?" -- (invited pannelist), MIT Symposium on Computational Photography, May 2005
• "Shadow Illuminator," exhibit at the Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems, 2003, invited by National Science Foundation.
• "Sensory Level Information Processing: Opportunities and Challenges," (invited presentation), Camera Ab Initio Workshop, Darpa, April 28-29, Washington, DC
• "From Imaging to Visual Perception," (invited presentation) "Machine Vision & Robotics... Integrating for the Future," Society of Manufacturing Engineers and Machine Vision Association. April 3, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA
• "SNR Implications of Pixel Binning,"  (invited presentation) DARPA, an internal brainstorming session, Washington, DC, Sep. 17, 2002.
• "Dynamic Range: The Most Critical Performance Metric for Future Imaging Applications", (invited presentation) OIDA: Optoelectronic Industry Development Association, Smart Sensors and Intelligent Systems Workshop, Washington, DC, August 7-8, 2002
• "Analog Computational Sensors for Vision", (invited tutorial), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Washington, DC. May 12, 2002.
• "Sensory Computing: When, Why and How," (invited presentation), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Spring 2001.
• "Integrated Vision and Sensing for Human Sensory Augmentation" ONR, project closeout meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 2-3, 2000.
• "Sensory Computing," SPIE 45th Annual Meeting, Critical Technologies for the Future of Computing, Sep 28, 2000.
• "Non-contact Shape Sensing Technologies," (invited presentation) ABB PPL, Windsor, CT, June 1999.
• "Integrated Vision and Sensing," project presentation to ONR,  Nov. 1998.
• "Sensor for Low-Latency Visual Tracking," (invited presentation) Carnegie Mellon Research Institute,  for Army Research Laboratory, Fall 1997.
• "Sensor Level Processing for Adaptive Low-Latency Vision" (invited presentation) Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, for USAF Phillips Laboratory, winter 1997.
• "Agile Sensor Level Adaptation Images Difficult scenes," (invited presentation) Write Patterson AF Base, Dayton, OH, Spring 1997.
• "On-Chip Adaptation Makes Sensors Smart," (invited presentation), Smart Sensor Workshop, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 1996.
• "Smart Vision Sensors", (invited presentation) ALCATEC: Alternative Camera Technology Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1996.